Categories of practical reason

 (apologies for  mistakes)

This is original interpretation of categories of practical reason. Practical reason is decision-making reason. Any reasonable activity can be classified as follows:


Action
1) Conservation of  benefits
2) Realisation of benefits
3)cessation of harm
4) Prevention of harm .         

 Inaction-
5) Do not  cessation of benefits
6) do not prevention of  benefits
7) Do not conservation of harm
8) Do not realisation of harm.

Conservation and cessation-related to present, the prevention and  realisation-to  the future.  On the past actions of this repetition and recovery benefits, which is similar to the conservation and realisation of benefit. Relatively inactive to the past is not repeated and no recovery of harm, that are similar to the prevention and cessation of harm.: Actions is activity that changes the situation.  Inactions -  are no change to the situation.  The benefit-that any satisfying or maximizing life's needs.  Harm-is that which reduce the quality or quantity of life. (Note-the life of another person in any case can not be considered as harm. Kant wrote about this: "we must treat the person as to the purpose of action, not only as a means of")-Conservation  is to keep the situation as it is. . Realisation is change of situation, the transfer of anything of what is possible in reality. Cessation is change of situation, the transfer  of actual invalidation.  Prevention,is  keep  the situation, not  a transition of possible in reality.


Tables of theoretical categories of Kant and of categories of practical reason of Starchen should be studied as well as the multiplication table, because these tables are even more important than it.


Рецензии
Thousands of years before Kant, Patangali summarized it in more universal terms in yoga sutras drawing from Vedas and Buddhism. Some of them, five yamas (abstentions) and five niamas (observances)were later reiterated in many other religious texts (e.g., ten commandments) and were used as millenia-old human wisdom that should govern one live to stay healthy and avoid suffering:

The five Yamas are considered codes of restraint, abstinences, self-regulations, and involve our relationship with the external world and other people:
Ahimsa: non-violence, non-harming, non-injury
Satya: truthfulness, honesty
Asteya: non-stealing, abstention from theft
Brahmacharya: walking in awareness of the highest reality, continence, remembering the divine
Aparigraha: non-possessiveness, non-holding through senses, non-greed, non-grasping, non-indulgence, non-acquisitiveness

The five Niyamas are the observances or practices of self-training, and deal with our personal, inner world:
Shaucha: purity of body and mind
Santosha: contentment
Tapah: training the senses, austerities, ascesis
Svadhyaya: self-study, reflection on sacred words
Ishvara pranidhana: surrender; (ishvara = creative source, causal field, God, supreme Guru or teacher; pranidhana = practicing the presence, dedication, devotion, surrender of fruits of practice)

Дина Беляева   02.11.2011 19:39     Заявить о нарушении