Ruminants
When I stand on the shoulders of other people (see
last week) and I am the one at the top, how do I come higher? Once being there I
have the risk that I ruminate what those others below me have thought out before
and that I see it as something new. If that happens, my thinking has become an
obstacle for my thinking. Then, it’s time to spring down and to do something.
Act! Gather new experiences! But isn’t this what most of us fear?
Actually, my physical constitution says already so,
for why else should I have not only such a big brain (the thinking system in my
head) but also such refined hands (typically made for doing)? Isn’t it so that they represent the two sides
of what I am? They express the two aspects of my existence. These aspects are
dependent on each other and cannot do without each other. As such they exclude
each other but nevertheless they supplement each other, too, and seen that way
they are complementary, in the way the German philosopher Karl-Otto Apel has described
so well in a different context. Thereby they make up human life, which is made
for thinking and acting, anyhow.
More on Apel in my PhD
thesis (see left) and in older blogs.
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