The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden

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I fear I have misled as well as been misled insofar as I have represented belief and action simply and exclusively as matters of life-praxis.

Self-understanding is also action—specifically, transcendental action; and it necessarily implies belief—specifically, existential- and empirical-historical as well as existential-and therefore ethical-and metaphysical-transcendental belief.

What certainly are matters of life-praxis, however, are the explication-formulation of such belief, practical as well as theoretical, and the categorial action implied by the transcendental action of self-understanding. The second, of course, also involves the belief and action necessary to the further specification of categorial action.

6 October 2005

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