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 OFFLINE | Traditional philosophy constructed human reality out of rational structuring and bits of sensation. This meant that since animals don't have rational structure (which was conceived of as floating forms imposed), they had to be mere machines. We find it hard to imagine how those philosophers reconciled this basic view of reality with their experience of animals. But, today, existential and phenomenological philosophy does nearly the same. There are two basic kinds of beings, humans with their possibility-sketching, and things which are mere results. I call it a "city philosophy," nothing but people and stones. But neither human reason, nor human life-projecting meets Being for the first time. The human is embedded in nature (and not at all a separate alienated pole, though we may think of ourselves that way). Reason and language are embedded in behavior and the body. |
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