By Schubert Ogden
The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden
It seems clear that the orthodox distinction between "intellect" and "will," and thence between "theoretical" and "practical," and so on, roughly anticipates my distinction between "belief" and "action," etc.
I say "roughly anticipates," however, because, whereas, for the orthodox, the distinction between "intellect" and "will" is ultimate, for me, the ultimate term is, rather, "self-understanding," which refers to something transcending both intellect and will, even though it has an intellectual as well as a volitional aspect, corresponding to the metaphysical and moral aspects of ultimate reality in its meaning for us.
Summer 1996
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