From: "Anthony Crifasi" <crifasi-AT-flash.net>
Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 23:51:15 +0000
Subject: Re: Clarity


Robert wrote:

> i was characterizing how always already human
> beings are situated.  not an enlightened philosophical rendition.
> 
> i'm talking about how it is for you in your life.  everyday life with the
> wife and kids or whomever.  i assert that you see life (in that context) as
> in a subject/object split.  you operate that way.  in your real life (as
> you interact with live human beings--like at the store or at work)

What do you think about the often used example of everydayness - 
hammering? For example, while you are absorbed in hammering, it does 
not appear to you as thing (a hammer) performing an action 
(hammering) upon another thing (a board). Similarly, I do not 
experience my wife as "an object as opposed to me, the subject" until 
I enter into at least some level of reflection. Rather, she is simply 
- my wife. And my kids are simply - my kids.

Anthony Crifasi


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