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If essence is "TOWARDS which a thing is moving" then what is "conclusion" [that arrived at?] My question is in relation to the notion that the movement towards is "multiple" and "excess" but the conclusion is in*forming. Therefore essence is multiple "potential" or "possibility". On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote: > I don't know if this helps, Tony, but the German word for essence is > /wesen/, which is the past tense of being (i.e., was). > Which makes me think of Aristotle who took essence to be that towards which > a thing is moving, i.e, the future tense. > > Andy > > > Tony Whitson wrote: > >> Someone sent me an off-list response to my Freire post, offering that "I >> think that "ser " used by Paulo Freire refers to the essence of each >> individual. " In my response, I say that I agree with ser as the essnece, >> but I'm thinking Freire is trying to say our essence is our doing, not >> something that we are [as with the verbal copula]. This is consistent with >> Sartre, of course, but I think Freire is trying to express this in a more >> radical sense, by using "ser" (at least sometimes) in a way that it should >> not be translated as the noun "L'etre." >> >> >> I think "ser" is not always "O ser" (= L 'etre) in Freire, as when he >> writes >> in the footnote "Em torno do que e de como estão sendo." (p. 1, chapter 1, >> Pedagogia do Oprimido) >> >> The English, in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, is: < preoccupation with what >> and how they are "being." > >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.**ucsd.edu<xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu>] >> On >> Behalf Of Larry Purss >> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 8:56 AM >> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity >> Subject: [xmca] adverbial qualified movement, action, being >> >> >> The discussion of vivencia has me pondering >> >> >> The turn to discussing "vital experience" or being as qualified being [not >> qualia] seems to be an opening with potential and possibility. >> >> >> Andy, >> >> you ask if it is what we "make" of an experience that is determinative if >> it >> is "vital". I would suggest that the term how we "participate" rather >> than >> "make" is central to exploring "vital experience". Making is one >> particular >> approach to engaging vital experience. This is a vital experience that >> transforms the individual person's orientation within the world. This is >> an >> agentive response that has the quality of being a "personal" decision. I >> would like to suggest this is one particular way to intergrate "vital >> experience in our proceeding along pathways. I would even suggest this may >> be the particular way forward that is biased as an approach within >> modernity >> as an ethical way of life. >> >> >From this perspective "vital experience" can be personally "undergone" >> >> >>> and >>> >>> >> >> through struggle and courageously exploring of personal inscapes the >> person >> can change direction and "make" something different of their lives >> [develop] >> >> >> However, alternatively, the person could possibly be "met" [alterity] and >> in >> this "I-YOU" meeting "vital experience" is transformed and new pathways >> open. I wonder if this alternative way of engaging "vital experience" is >> through "witnessing" [as I explored recently] This is another way of >> engaging "vital experience" that does not emphasize the personal >> courageous >> aspect of transformation [as making] but rather points to "being met" >> within >> the "vital experience". >> >> >> I've contrasted and made distinct two possible openings of development >> [transformation or in*formation] One emphasing a journey through >> inscapes, >> the other through intersubjective "holding environments". In actuality >> there >> may be multiple flow-forms and interweavings of these multiple strands of >> "vital experience" What I'm pointing to is our socio-cultural biases in >> modernity to validate the "inscapes" as legitimate [good] pathways of >> transformation while invalidating the inter-subjective witnessing pathways >> to transformation. [as dependency and defended against] In other words we >> don't really "trust" the other will actually respond to the calling of >> "vial >> experience". >> >> Andy, I grant that after being "met" [which I believe may be developmental >> in its own movement] there follow other phases or levels of transformation >> that bring us back to "spaces of reason" "propositional language games" >> >> "agentive stances of *making* ones way in the world", etc. >> >> This becomes a cultural-historical narrative of projects and objects and >> activity. I also grant "meeting" as I'm discussing it is "normative" and >> an >> ethical stance towards alterity [including one's own alterity]. However >> as >> a particular form of participation it may have as much validity and >> legitimacy as the moe courageous form of turning towards inscapes for >> transormation. >> >> >> Larry >> >> ______________________________**____________ >> >> _____ >> >> xmca mailing list >> >> <mailto:xmca@weber.ucsd.edu> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu >> >> <http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/**listinfo/xmca<http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca> >> > >> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/**listinfo/xmca<http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca> >> >> ______________________________**____________ >> _____ >> xmca mailing list >> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu >> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/**listinfo/xmca<http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca> >> >> >> >> > > -- > ------------------------------**------------------------------** > ------------ > *Andy Blunden* > Joint Editor MCA: http://www.tandfonline.com/**toc/hmca20/18/1<http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hmca20/18/1> > Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/ > Book: http://www.brill.nl/default.**aspx?partid=227&pid=34857<http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=227&pid=34857> > > ______________________________**____________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/**listinfo/xmca<http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca> > __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca