Scepticism and Naturalism by Strawson P. F

Author:Strawson, P. F.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

1. Strawson, Freedom, and Resentment (London: Methuen, 1974).

2. Nagel, Mortal Questions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979).

3. The parallel may be found at the end of section VII of chapter 5 of Reid's Inquiry into the Human Mind, published in 1764 while Hume was still alive. The specific response Reid dwells on is that of resentment of injury.

4. Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (London: Penguin Books, 1977).

5. Let me remark, in passing, on one popular misrepresentation, or misunderstanding, of this last position, embodied in the slogan, “Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner” or “To understand all is to forgive all.” This is a misrepresentation of the position because forgiveness belongs precisely to the range of attitudes and reactions which, on the view currently being considered, are undermined or shown to have no proper objects if the objective standpoint is the correct one. Only where there is supposed to be genuine wrong can there be genuine forgiveness.

Incidentally, the best comment on this familiar slogan I ever heard was made by J. L.Austin. He said: “That's quite wrong; understanding might just add contempt to hatred.”

6. Ayer, The Central Questions of Philosophy ch. 5 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1973).

7. Strawson, “Perception and Its Objects,” in G.F.Macdonald, ed., Perception and Identity (London: Macmillan, 1979).

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