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Ever noticed how ‘temple’ in spiritual terms has more in common with a ‘body’ than a literal building?
Excellent question. The word meaning can be confusing as well as the word purpose or anything indicating a necessary reasoning.It may be more beneficial while tagging the mystical line to speak of the apparent function which life, which in this sense I take to mean experience or consciousness appears to achieve, and that is it appears to achieve information, which here means that which informs, or in other words, expression, that which expresses.
That’s pretty good from an ‘I’ philosophy point of view, interior monologue and expression, but it is only an appearance. I like the phenomenological approach of to the things themselves!
What is expressing in the first is the only which to express. That means in its greatest form, experience appears to be Self Expression, expression of oneself through communicative material known as information or experience, to its own apprehension and which appears and is this known, to itself.
So even though such may not be necessary in this way, and may result in accepted absurdities like butterflies appearing to drink flowers from a proboscis, it is all communication, from the Sole power to the Sole power. An expression of its self from itself to itself by itself.
For itself too?
Self Expression.
Now the other way one can answer is what is the best meaning one can make for their lives or purpose?In that case, survival and increasing comfortable survival while pursuing what lacks suffering and penalties in pursuit of the best possible one can keep working for and improvements while avoiding harm and consequences.
I don’t think consequence can be avoided and I think there is more to life than just survival and reducing harm – however noble that is of course – but consequence is how we learn and have states to contrast with one another when we sum up meaning. I’m really starting to notice mathematical language in philosophy today!
Survival can in this sense mean continued motion and by extension continued expression and experience or ability to in at least some sense move or be animated which does not necessitate the appearance of bodily movement.
So life is a performance that seeks to express itself in the most powerful way possible?
Glad you found it useful and it’s good to see you posting with a free flow.
@”thetrizzard” What do you make of this? An author placing himself inside the text, before the text ‘begins’ and Goethe most definitely is dead by the time others read it.
What does ‘mean’ mean?
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Currently reading the chapter
Play and Messianicity: The Question of Time and History in Derrida’s Deconstruction
FRANÇOISE DASTUR
Currently reading the chapter
Play and Messianicity: The Question of Time and History in Derrida’s Deconstruction
FRANÇOISE DASTUR
Currently reading the chapter
Play and Messianicity: The Question of Time and History in Derrida’s Deconstruction
FRANÇOISE DASTUR
Currently reading the chapter
Play and Messianicity: The Question of Time and History in Derrida’s Deconstruction
FRANÇOISE DASTUR
Really enjoyed that link about religion. Almost like he is describing the formation of religious passions in the moment.
I highly recommend the John D. Caputo lecture on YouTube
Going to watch it when I get in.Although this thread has not (as of yet) revealed anything mindblowing, it has been a great team effort of sharing links and resources, little pointers here and there.
I think we should keep to this kind of method, reading an assigned book per thread.
If you want to, you can open up a new thread for the companion book in the reading area section. I will definitely commit to it if I am reading it with someone else.
I have a copy of that too, I will read that one essay and get on Lacan.
I will be starting this from the top again tomorrow.
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