From: Valuemetaphysics@aol.com
Date: Sun Jul 18 2004 - 14:38:40 BST
Hi chaps
Try a metaphor from Heidegger:
Surely we can only understand coherence if we
can establish its opposite. Try alienation.
Let's say alienation is associated with SOM.
Imagine a master craftsman nailing with a hammer
some nails into some wood. He is doing the job,
he is not aware of himself, he has no problems
to solve, their is a perfect union between the
person, hammer, nails, wood. The activity occurs
pretty thoughtlessly. The self, the objects disappear
into the activity and active state.
Then the hammer breaks. The hammering stops.
The objects appear before the craftsman, laid
out, no longer active, broken, a problem has
emerged, the coherence is gone, the craftsman is
confronted with hammer, nails, wood as a problem,
lying in the way of his project to make a table. How
can these objects (SQ patterns) be brought back into
coherence with his activity and projects? Alienation is
always derived from such problems, from failed and
difficult projects, from SQ patterns as obstacles. When
SQ patterns fit in with our values/projects there is coherence.
Any use? Being and Time is full of these practical metaphors
and examples, if you can get through the early chapters.
regards
David M
Hi David M,
I've not read any Heidegger, but i flirted with him and Hegel and Husserl
when studying Sartre in secondary texts (the three H's)
Coherence and alienation?
Interesting.
The situationists suggest man is defined by his situation.
The MOQ says man is the result of value evolution from DQ to DQ.
The here and now is man's situation.
The here and now is sq-sq purposeless tension or coherence.
Man is defined by coherence.
A broken hammer reduces coherence for the artist. That is his situation.
It occurs to me that a master artist would use a hammer in such a way as to
maintain it's integrity, like the master butcher and his knife David M? Perhaps
a broken hammer tells us alienation is alienation from coherence?
Perhaps if one takes a motorcycle to the shop for repairs, one would do well
to ask the mechanic if one may examine his tools before letting him/her get to
work on it? One may discover the mechanic lives a life of alienation? ;)
All the best,
Mark
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