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Art/Literary - Philosophy / Keiji Nishitani | | Japanese term or phrase: 人間理性の自主的な活動の自由 | This is from this sentence:
そして、近世になって自然の秩序の源と共に道徳的秩序の源もまた神の意志から神の理性へ移されてきたが、やがてそれが理性一般に移されるに至ったとき、人間理性の自主的な活動の自由は、もはや神への反逆や高ぶりであるとは考えられなくなってきた。
It looks like the translation should be "freedom of autonomous action of human reason", just taking it as its written down, however could this be "freedom of autonomous action as chosen by human reason" or somthing along those lines?
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| | English translation:The freedom of human reason operating autonomously | Explanation:
I read this similarly to your first interpretation. If this is talking about the history of ideas, and in particular the 'age of enlightenment' (the move away from medieval scholasticism, birth of modern philosophy - Descarte and all that) this was still a deeply religious age, and I'm not sure that the issue is morality (eg acting according to what one believes is rational as opposed to what accords with religion), but rather just the freedom to use logic and rationality as tools for exploring the world. |
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 Steven F Smith
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Local time: 05:25
| Grading comment Hi, although I'm not 100% positive, I think this is talking about the action of reasoning, not reasoned action, although to be perfectly honest I'm not sure. Thanks for all your help!
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26 mins confidence:   Freedom of autonomous action based on human reason
Explanation:
Isn't the idea that action BASED ON reason was seen as acceptable once God was thought to act on the basis of reason?
(Does that help?)
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Asker: Hi, although I'm not 100% positive, I think this is talking about the action of reasoning, not reasoned action, although to be perfectly honest I'm not sure. Thanks for all your help!
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8 hrs confidence: Freedom of independent activity based on man's reasoning
Explanation:
Philosophy was not my strongest course in university! Does this make sense to you based on the other parts of the translation?
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Asker: Hi, although I'm not 100% positive, I think this is talking about the action of reasoning, not reasoned action, although to be perfectly honest I'm not sure. Thanks for all your help!
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