The Space Man Knows What’s Going On

Sartre plays a little around with the details, and basically calls this unveiling a political altruism, and a desire to be God. Ok. Merleau-Ponty gives the Body a significant place in how this unveiling occurs, but he makes the mistake of only doing so in terms of a male body, which Sartre’s girlfriend Simone de Beauvoir then explains how the female body does this Act differently, further separating and defining the Otherness and the essence of this interaction with Otherness. Which has great appeal to someone who is disabled, if we want to think of disability as yet another Otherness separated… a third Otherness, which was my thesis for my senior paper. Simone’s book was the Second Sex. I’ve come to think of disability as a third gender. Not my original coinage, unfortunately.

Concrete examples of Heidegger’s thinking:  Instead of a whole science on biology and reproduction and differentiating of species through the process called Evolution, there would be a science of how language (as the tool of uncovering Therenesses) has changed over time and the impact that has had in our interactions with Others. I’m reading now a great book on the different Empires on the World and the History of Languages. It is about how the greatest empires of the world came and went because of how the language changed over time and how that language change effected how they interacted with Others, and how that interaction with Others changed how they developed environmentally, socially, politically, educationally, etc. etc. Way more revealing of the world than studying how panda’s do the wild thing.

Concrete example #2:  Ethics. The Kantian and Hegelian ethics rely heavily on universal dogmatic law applied to particular events. Well, this doesn’t always workout so well, as every event has its own unique circumstances. A one-size-fits-all approach to ethics hasn’t gotten us very far. Look at war, religious persecution, social persecutions, etc. A social ethics based on interaction with Others via the love/meaning Act will have a completely different result, dynamic enuf and strong enuf to perhaps ends social strife, while accentuating the positive. If we see the world in terms of interactions instead of power/conquest, cooperation/diplomacy becomes the rule, life is accentuated and revered, exchange and trade, communication… it’s a little different than colonialization and might makes right.  See Buddhism for practical insights.

The post-Nietzschean era of philosophy is a remarkable shift from the penultimate conclusion that Hegel and Kant’s mind/body-thesis/antithesis-Either/Or dualism crap arrives at.  Impacts are diverse, explosive, meaningful, dynamic, and more revealing than Thought prior. Keep in mind, that this was a quick and lazy perspective where details and citation are lacking, replaced with by insight and summary. Read the original works, take a class and find these conclusions or different conclusions are your own. That’s what it is all about.