Why do so many philosophers arrive at trichotomies?
Peirce: firstness, secondness, thirdness; In psychology Feeling is First, Sense of reaction Second, General conception Third, or mediation.
Popper: World 1 = physical objects and events; Worlds 2 = mental objects and events; World 3 = theories or objective knowledge.
MacIntyre: encyclopedic, genealogical, traditional
Cassirer: expressive, life, I, feeling; representative, action, you, willing; significative, work, it, thinking.
Note Cassirer’s classification of philosophies according to which basic phenomenon they take as prior: Descartes, Husserl, Bergson; Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, James, Heidegger; Kant. Coincidence that the second group overlap with MacIntyre’s genealogical version?
[Kants 3 critiques]
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