We say of the person that he will not come out with it. The shut-up is precisely the mute; the spoken word is precisely the saving thing. ... Freedom is constantly communicating; unfreedom becomes more and more shut-up and wants no communication.
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Notion of Having
Having, possessing, owning -- the tragedy of all having invariably lies in our desperate efforts to make ourselves as one with something which nevertheless is not, and cannot, be identical with our beings.
Gabrel Marcel
Notion of Shame
Shame is the state of man in his social nakedness - stripped, by society of all his protections - being exposed to observation of an omnprsent andomniscient God.
Gabrel Marcel
Metaphysical Unease
Metaphysical unease is like the bodily state of a man in a fever who will not lie still but keeps shifting around in his bed looking for the right position.
Gabrel Marcel
Notion of Tourist / Sight-Seer
No interest in discovery, only conforming to what was to be expected in the experience, measuring up to the criterion of the event. Want only their experience certified as being genuine. “This is it, this is acceptable, you got it, good for you.”
The consumer is content to receive an experience as it has been presented to him ... a consumer of prepared experiences. The thing is lost through its packaging.
Notion of A Drowning Man (see Spectator)
....the passion of a drowning man, desperately cries out for help; who passionately asks what is truth as a matter of life and death. Men of this sort are in search of the meaning of existence itself. they are no longer spectators, for they know that there very existence is at stake.
Emil Brunner
The Notion of Human Emptiness
Human beings are roughly constructed entites full of indeterminacies and vaguenesses and empty spaces. Driven along by their own private needs they latch blindly onto each other, then pull away, then clutch again. Their little sadisms and their little masochisms are surface phenomena. Anyone will do to play the roles. They never really see each other at all. there is no relationship ... which cannot quite easily be broken and there is none the breaking of which is a matter of any genuine seriousness. Human beings are essentially finders of substitutes.
Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat
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