00, notes
/ repository branch 05
!! high and dry, unable to make a confident start
| I lack confidence in my arguments because none is convincing in itself
- though the arguments cohere well enough, and each is at least plausible
? is it true that *none* is convincing?
| at least one argument is convincing in itself
- stability entails the autotelic principle, whereby it *is* constitutive of reason
- I can make this argument directly at the outset
/ it does not depend on the full outlook argument
: see 70.brec
- it depends only on:
a) disengagement from the existential mechanisms
of the other normative sources
b) theoretic and practical necessity vs. contingency
c) the criterion of success vs. failure of reason
- not only the constitutive argument, but also the principles
of reason depend on criterion (c), and perhaps (b) too
+ consider starting with this
/ much as originally planned, but with more confidence I hope
| no rhetorical thread to weave through the arguments
- though the arguments cohere well enough, I fail to come to grips with the task of writing
them because I see no storyline or other rhetorical handle that would unify them
| put motivation and meaning first, hanging the arguments confidently from that
- there hooking the general reader, as I was hooked
- thereafter holding him (and so maintaining confidence) through each argument
sync+ with notes
: privately see ~/work/ethic/._/05/20_origin.notes.brec
: privately see ~/work/ethic/._/05/._/origin.notes_boneyard.brec
: see notepad:all