Blog Archive
-
▼
2016
(343)
-
▼
August
(31)
- Social life requires something like a form o...
- If relationship, as a force oblique to their...
- The English word relationship seems to carry...
- What is constant is the taking things for gr...
- A persona is the expression of an integrated...
- The combining of two separate but near point...
- Idealism has about it the smell of a solipsi...
- The various version of the rhetoric-persuasi...
- An experience, my experience, experience in ...
- The imagination works overtime synthesising ...
- Our world is made by the imagination, the...
- "Now that we know all language lies." Indeed...
- Distinguish the idea of persona from that of...
- Lived time is subdivided into quanta, formin...
- The mind is a control mechanism in so far as...
- Except on a very small number of occasions t...
- Questionings always fail, they don't get ans...
- Even if what we call consciousness takes its...
- Bodily consciousness is depthless because in...
- The mind feels simple, as if it either outwa...
- Most of the time his lucubrations fell into ...
- Critique of life is quite di...
- The succession of bodily and mental states s...
- Under happiness life becomes dreamable; ther...
- It is the whole life of the other that affec...
- He was a knot of circumstances held in a tig...
- The impossible object is known to be impossi...
- Where we seem somewhat free is only in our t...
- In childhood, before our character and indiv...
- Doing never flags. We are always doing somet...
- Certain popular songs seem to not only ...
-
▼
August
(31)
Tuesday, 2 August 2016
Doing never flags. We are always doing something but the intensity of our doing occupies a wide range with at one end the association with a positive will which strives to bring something about that is not yet the case, and at the other a negative will, the refraining from doing anything to hinder what is already underway. In this sense, and apart perhaps from certain exceptional automatisms, doing can be equated with willing, and together with thinking and feeling it forms one of the dimensions of being. It is a temptation to seek the absolute of will in a putative free-will because the notion of latter is of something independent and free-standing, outside of the endless flow in which all doing in caught up. Free-will is indispensable as a framing device for understanding and committing to certain kinds of actions, decisive in a life-historical sense, but it is incoherent as an ontological category, as a type of thing. The position of the absolute of will thus remains open and we must look to the adventures of our doing. To be born 'into this breathing world' is to be born into doing, as breathing is the very gauge of action, conscious and unconscious, heavy or suspended and so on. In addition the relations to the other have their own formations in doing through the distinctions of activity and passivity, of doing and being done to, of dominance and submission, as well as of doing with and its integration and interplay with feeling and knowing in intimate experience.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.