"Surely the mind is not just a faculty: it is an immaterial and private world, the locus of our secret thoughts, the auditorium of our interior monologues, the theatre in which our dreams are staged and our plans rehearsed."
— Kenny, Anthony (b. 1931)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
Oxford
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Date
1992
Metaphor
"Surely the mind is not just a faculty: it is an immaterial and private world, the locus of our secret thoughts, the auditorium of our interior monologues, the theatre in which our dreams are staged and our plans rehearsed."
Metaphor in Context
It may be argued that the definition of the mind as an intellectual capacity is too austere and abstract. Some may feel that it is a perverse denial of the reality of the mind. Surely the mind is not just a faculty: it is an immaterial and private world, the locus of our secret thoughts, the auditorium of our interior monologues, the theatre in which our dreams are staged and our plans rehearsed. To define the mind as a capacity is, it may be urged, to ignore all this: it is a dogmatic behaviouristic failure to look the obvious in the eye.
(p. 25)
(p. 25)
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Reading
Citation
Anthony Kenny, The Metaphysics of Mind (Oxford UP, 1992).
Date of Entry
03/18/2013
