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March 20, 2006

Inside and Outside

"Inside and outside are inseparable. The world is wholly inside and I am wholly outside of myself."

He sees the body as providing the basis for one's orientation to the world. The uniqueness of orientation is what makes it "essential to me not only to have a body, but to have this body."
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"I am a field, an experience."
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Consciousness, i.e. the intention to mean something, does not in fact make words mean what they do. Intention outrun speech and the language outrun us because of "a surplus of the signified over the signifying."

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Freedom is situated in the world, and "the world is already constituted, but also never completely constituted."

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"My freedom...... has not the power to transform me instantaneously into what I decide to be." Furthermore, I am not alone in the world. "My life must have a significance which I do not constitute; there must strictly speaking be an intersubjectivity."

Posted by Xiao at March 20, 2006 02:24 PM

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