Q&A: The Nature of the Capacity to Identify the Prescriptive
The Nature of the Capacity to Identify the Prescriptive
Question
Hello and blessings,
In my recollection, you wrote in several places in your books about “prescriptive statements” that move a person to action (do you remember where?). This category is connected to the nature of aesthetic or ethical value-judgment, which is not neutral in its essence (but rather “colored” with some sort of charge).
I am currently dealing with these topics, and I am wondering whether you could refer me to places that discuss this from a philosophical standpoint, and also from a therapeutic one. That is, I am also looking for discussions about the nature of this capacity. Is there a professional term for a person who lacks this ability? Is it possible to map this defect in the brain?
Best regards,
Answer
As far as I remember, in volume 3 of the fourth conversation of The First Being and in Humanity Like the Grass.
The motivation I am speaking about is not psychological but philosophical-ethical. These are statements that are supposed to motivate a person to act, but do not necessarily actually do so.
If this still interests you, you can search online.
Discussion on Answer
I didn’t understand. That is what I called psychological motivation, and that is not what I deal with.
Thank you very much.
Maybe I should be more precise: I am not looking for psychological motivation, but rather something more physical or psychiatric. That is, the brain component that “understands” philosophical motivation. From this it would follow that (some) psychopaths may be morally corrupted due to a lack of receptive capacity (and then they may perhaps even be considered coerced, etc.).
Thanks again!