Let’s stay with the complex of exercises from LOK 14, 22, 23. Move around among them as you like.<\/p>\n
The reading for this week is Chapter 18. There is a sentence at the beginning of the week that I long ago memorized, because I like it so much: “In one unified action, the self takes a position, posits a situation, and imposes meaning.” There is of course a play on words here: posing, positing, and imposing. They all relate to the word for “to put.” So the self is doing all this. But where does this self that puts take its stand? For time to go by, does the self have to be on a kind of stationary platform? These are questions the exercises may help clarify (not necessarily answer, just clarify).<\/p>\n
Once the self comes into play, once we look at it seriously, our whole way of relating to time changes. Now the future is the ‘location’ that will give us what we want or fear, while the past is the source of our limits and our identity. How does this way of doing\/viewing time fit with the linear momentary time we have been looking at? See the last sentence on p. 149, another one I quite spontaneously memorized, because it is so powerful. I invite your comments.<\/p>\n
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Let’s stay with the complex of exercises from LOK 14, 22, 23. Move around among them as you like. The reading for this week is Chapter 18. There is a sentence at the beginning of the week that I long … Continue reading