Prisons and Worlds of the Mind: Mind-forg'd 'Carceri', in a Nutshell

Michel de Montaigne's subjectivism and relativism is memorably formulated in his essay "That the relish for good and evil depends in great measure upon the opinion we have of them" (Essays I.XL), a reflection that must have influenced Shakespeare. Here we point out the origins of modern constructivist theories of reality in Montaigne's questioning of a common world of evaluations and perceptions in this essay—with some incidental commentary on the insights on relativism and constructivism afforded by Shakespeare himself, and by William Blake as well. The relativization of reality resulting from differences in perception, and the intensification of reality-generating processes resulting from the peculiarities of human nature, are crucial tenets of modern phenomenological anthropology, but we should recognize their intellectual debts to the ground-breaking insights of Montaigne and Shakespeare:  

 

Prisons and Worlds of the Mind: 

Mind-Forg'd 'Carceri', in a Nutshell

https://ssrn.com/abstract=3038340

5 Pages Posted: 20 Sep 2017  

Jose Angel Garcia Landa
Universidad de Zaragoza

Suggested Citation:

Garcia Landa, Jose Angel, Prisons and Worlds of the Mind: Mind-Forg'd 'Carceri', in a Nutshell (April 29, 2017). Ibercampus (April 29, 2017) . Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3038340

 

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