I don’t think we can reach the essence of the world or of things; that vision is theological, although it often finds reflection in modern science and thought. Ontologically speaking, the only way we can give meaning to things is always through interpretation. The nature of interpretation is to be...
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“Human, all too human” Language is still a subject of serious investigation since the beginning of the 20th century. The central topic is its relation to the world. Language inherently does not exist as part of the physical world, its a representation, a means of communication, a collector of pointers....
We can only come to know ourselves and others through the medium of signs The “Ship of Theseus” is a philosophical thought experiment that explores identity over time. It poses the question: if a ship has every single one of its original parts replaced over time, is it still the...
As part of integral thinking we can conceptually divide language into modes. The modes represent the semantic fields of our paradigm of thought and their relation to the world. Language is a tool, can be used in many ways and was subjected to evolution through time. Is language a tool...
If thoughts are alive and if that which lives thinks, then perhaps the living world is enchanted. What I mean is that the world beyond the human is not a meaningless one made meaningful by humans. Rather, mean-ings—means-ends relations, strivings, purposes, telos, intentions, functions and significance—emerge in a world of...
When approaching nature, let yourself become a child, looking at things for the first time. Watch the tree, smell the tree, touch the tree, pet the tree, hug the tree. If life is about growth, change, flux, then language can only describe a lifeless world. Language always relates to fixed,...
what it means to be a man...
Can we see our lives, and their meaning, not as a causal chain of events ? is everything meant to be ? how much control do we have ? are we different than non-humans because we have a ‘will’ ? Western science and materialism generally treat us as parts of...
Language as World-Building: The Cage of Ego and Morality Language does not merely describe a world; it builds one. When words are stabilized—inscribed, canonized, recited as binding—they do more than communicate. They legislate. In the Hebraic imagination of the Old Testament, this stabilization becomes a meta-principle: the Word is the...
The aperspectival world is a radical mutation in the structure of human consciousness: not merely a new idea, but a new mode of perceiving reality that transcends and includes the earlier perspectival/mental structures (archaic, magical, mythic). Where the perspectival modern mind privileges a single, detached point of view—linear time, spatial...
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