Your tongue is a rudder, it steers the whole ship. Sends the words past your lips,
Anaximander inadvertantly continued a pre-religious notion that the world was ordered. Single handedly philosophy created a gap between Being and Becoming. Heraclitus attempted to break down Being in favor of pure Becoming, while Plato cemented Being as supreme over Becoming. Nietzsche's over-man beckoned for the toppling of Being in favor of Becoming - to return to living as part of existence (being) rather than an observer of it. Heidegger grappled with the mechanics of Nietzsche's beckoning, how to Be in Time. Despite coming from a different tradition, Wittgenstein expounded on the problema of language, highlighting Heidegger's ultimate frustration with language as a key example of how we seemingly cannot ever Be in Time. Derrida's deconstructionalism further deepened the hole.
Becoming is all we have, and we must live in nature rather than apart from, to be in time. But our hands seem to be tied behind our backs, disabling us from getting there. And the practicality of living itself for humans seems to pull us further away from this conclusion.
How to Be in Time? The recognition of the problem involves learning language (since it fundamentally structures the way we think, not just the way we speak), which inadvertently creates an impossibility of solving it (since the world is only intelligible through the very thing that must be left behind).
I don't have the answer - though if you follow what I've written, you'll realize how ironic it is to even speak of a 'solution'. Buddhists try to live by starving themselves of this pulling influence - experiencing true living by coming incredibly close to death itself. But I will tell you this, I still sleep with Aristotle under my pillow.
Take that for what you may,
Becoming is all we have, and we must live in nature rather than apart from, to be in time. But our hands seem to be tied behind our backs, disabling us from getting there. And the practicality of living itself for humans seems to pull us further away from this conclusion.
How to Be in Time? The recognition of the problem involves learning language (since it fundamentally structures the way we think, not just the way we speak), which inadvertently creates an impossibility of solving it (since the world is only intelligible through the very thing that must be left behind).
I don't have the answer - though if you follow what I've written, you'll realize how ironic it is to even speak of a 'solution'. Buddhists try to live by starving themselves of this pulling influence - experiencing true living by coming incredibly close to death itself. But I will tell you this, I still sleep with Aristotle under my pillow.
Take that for what you may,