Re: [OPE-L] Re determinism in Derrida's ghosts

[Howard Engelskirchen <howarde@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

quoting:

"I would be happy enough with a suggestion that the standard notion of
causality
might have its origins in juridical ideology and notions of retribution.
That is at least plausible."

The Kantian jurist Hans Kelsen develops this argument at some length.  See,
esp. What is Justice.

howard



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> Quoting Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > Does that mean any  conception of causality not present in mechanics
> > is semi subjectivist and prescientific? I don't see how you are
supporting
> > this; nor do I see how you have made a case for redefining causality
rather
> > than dispensing with it altogether as a primitive concept having its
> > origins in,,say, retribution or primitive cosmology.
> >
> >
> I would be happy enough with a suggestion that the standard notion of
causality
> might have its origins in juridical ideology and notions of retribution.
> That is at least plausible.
>
> The position I am defending is an amalgum of Althusserianism and
> Australian Materialism, as elaborated by JJC Smart and H Price.
>
> For a detailed account see
>
> http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/gr-qc/pdf/9406/9406028.pdf
>
>
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