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    Chapter Positive and Negative Error. A Debate in the Illuminati Order

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    Author(s)
    Mulsow, Martin
    Language
    Italian
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    Abstract
    That error could be of interest to Freemasons and Illuminati as a topic becomes evident when one sees it in the context of concepts such as prejudice, ignorance, and gullibility. The perfection of the human being was understood as the detachment from prejudices – from errors –, as overcoming ignorance and as a fight against gullibility. In 1785 there was a discussion among the Illuminati of Gotha about how one should understand error. Prince August of Saxe-Gotha transfers Voltaire’s two types of imagination to two types of errors, using the distinction made by the physicist Charles Du Fay, who distinguished resin electricity (électricité résineuse) with its negative charge from glass electricity (électricité vitreuse) with its positive charge. So August suggests that there are positive and negative errors: the positive errors are attractive, they attract. In this case the cause of error lies on our side, on the side of the subjects: because of certain defects in the knower, facts are not correctly recognized. The negative errors, on the other hand, repel: there it is due to the nature of the representations of the facts themselves, which have pitfalls or are distorted by hallucinations, that we go wrong.
    URI
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89187
    Keywords
    Illuminati; electricity; Gotha; pedagogy; truth
    DOI
    10.36253/979-12-215-0266-4.09
    ISBN
    9791221502664, 9791221502664
    Publisher
    Firenze University Press
    Publisher website
    https://www.fupress.com/
    Publication date and place
    Florence, 2023
    Series
    Knowledge and its Histories, 2
    Pages
    14
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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