[lit-ideas] Re: Geary on Instrumental Technological Rationality
- From: John Wager <jwager@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:37:27 -0500
jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:
This is important. I cannot conceive of a human being (not a thing,
really) just thinging. Take an Air Conditioner Repair Man (or Person).
Surely he needs permission (by a nonthing = person) to get in, and
he´ll need the payment from the person (not thing).
Both the Buddhists and the Kantians might say that we "thing." We create
the appearance of a "thing" where none existed; without people there
would be no "things" at all. The forms of apperception (or the law of
dependent origination) require that we notice that the process of
"thinging" be a human one, not one in the outside (noumenal) world.
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