Tuesday 26 July 2016

The Thoughts Of Schopenhauer Vs Systemic Functional Linguistics [2]

Russell (1961: 724):
Kant had maintained that a study of the moral law can take us behind phenomena, and give us knowledge which sense-perception cannot give; he also maintained that moral law is essentially concerned with the will. The difference between a good man and a bad man is, for Kant, a difference in the world of things–in–themselves, and is also a difference as to volitions. It follows that, for Kant, volitions must belong to the real world, not to the world of phenomena. The phenomenon corresponding to a volition is a bodily movement; that is why, according to Schopenhauer, the body is the appearance of which will is the reality.


Blogger Comment:

From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, Schopenhauer ascribes the semiotic construal that is desiderative consciousness to the domain outside semiotic construals.

volitions
must belong to
the real world (things–in–themselves/noumena)
Carrier: possessed
Process: relational: possession
Attribute: possessor
a senser desiring
must belong to
the experience that is construed as meaning


Moreover, Schopenhauer regards desiderative mental processes as 'reality' (noumena) and their corresponding bodily material processes as mere 'appearance' (phenomena).

noumenon = reality
phenomenon= appearance
volition
bodily movement
a senser desiring
an actor doing

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