Showing posts with label subtext. Show all posts
Showing posts with label subtext. Show all posts
Saturday, August 11, 2007
The Abyssal
The cause of the irrupting of the Abyss is our urge to closure. Responsibility is in this sense an experience, something to be undergone, suffered, endured. And in the undergoing the something, in this case responsibility, itself comes to pass. There is no closure to experience, and this lack is itself the limit of experience. There is therefore only grasping of the experience in the as-if of the limit situation. Responsibility is responsibility only in the as-if of seeing no limits to responsibility, hence the arising of the Abyssal. But the Abyssal doesn't exist in-itself or as something apart from the experience that gives rise to it. The Abyssal's arising becomes the negative confirmation of that experience at the limit of lack of limits.
Thursday, August 09, 2007
World as Abyss
What happens when World as the totality of meanings exhausts itself without finally providing the context for all our varied subtexts? World as Abyss.
Does this mean, finally, that all subtexts are relative, and relative to something unknowable? It seems to. Does that relativize everything? No.
Our responsibilities remain what they were. Even in the situation where we don't, finally, know that we can be right.
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Abyss,
responsibility,
subtext,
TPE,
ultimate responsibility,
World
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