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This antinomical understanding (contradictory opposites that are both true) has its origins in Kant's work[0], which was of course picked up by Freud, conscious
by DiscourseFan 9mo ago
This antinomical understanding (contradictory opposites that are both true) has its origins in Kant's work[0], which was of course picked up by Freud, consciously or not.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant%27s_antinomies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant%27s_antinomies
- nsomaru 9mo agoThis may be of interest to you, a few years before Kant with “Syādvāda” going beyond the binary implied by contradiction alone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anekantavada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anekantavada
- canjobear 9mo agoI’m pretty sure the idea that things can be good in some ways and bad in other ways came way before Kant.
- DiscourseFan 9mo agoIts not "good in some ways and bad in others," its the idea that every action is fully mechanical and that every action is fully freely determined can both be argued to be true within the laws of cognition, even if they are completely opposed to one another.