Dear David,
I am cool with that approach - I find a self doing! (self = doing
being/being doing?)
BEING, as it has come to be looked at in philosophy, is both this
derived sense that there must be a being who is doing and hence this
being might be myself (an organized identity with memory and other forms
of temporal duration = having a body = constellating a presence) and it
is also the account of categories of apprehension that are found figured
in doing; that is, Kantian fundamentals like TIME and SPACE. Think of
mortality, think of natality, think of plasticity (as in my doing can
change my being), think of viscosity (as in my doing exceeds by being in
the world - it sticks to me and I stick to it) - these are conditions of
being that do not attend the DOING unless we allow that being is its own
doing. Doing has no use for these things. Which is perhaps why Sartre
wanted to hold on to the Cogito (hope that is not a listed word) as a
moment of being, not as a done bit of philosophy.
cheers
keith
>>> David Sless <[log in to unmask]> 04/05/13 9:52 AM >>>
Tim and Keith,
One could argue that all there is only DOING. Being is then post-factum
story telling*one of the ways we justify, describe and rationalise
what we have done.
David
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