Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1815

Pencil fragment presumably inspired by Judith N. Shklar’s book.

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To Judith N. Shklar with admiration for her prodigious scholarship and as a “genuinely radical” constructive epilogue to her penetrative and so richly documented review of “intellectual” irrationality and political futility.

                            /s/ Spencer Heath

 

 

 

 

     Introspection — self-consciousness — is subjective, of the inner self alone. Intellect, rationality, is for integration with the outer world by understanding it. Intellect — rationality — cannot operate on itself. It must have an object. Its subject matter is the outer world coming to it as action and sense-reaction. Intellect distinguishes and defines, analyzes and measures, dis ..