Self and World, or The Self= One's "own" World

Self/World:

i One's "own" World is the totality of what has been experienced and interpreted, including that experienced and interpreted at second hand and passed along.


ii Looked at from a different perspective, this is also the totality of the Self.


iii Most of the World is shared, without a fairly common sharing (within a given culture) actions that require common understandings (such as driving) would be impossible.


iv Most of what has been experienced and interpreted is inevitably second hand. Also much of it was concerned with the world as it was in earlier generations and times. That certain people seem "ahead of their time" is due to the majority interpretation being always "behind the time".


v This also means most of the self is shared and has not been grasped explicitly but through the interpretations of others (the 'One').


vi As a result individuation can only be a modification, and a relatively small one, of the primordially shared nature of the Self.


vii Conversation that is not a sharing of an originary stance towards a matter (idle talk, "shooting shit") is, in the case of someone not known well or a group, a mutual estimating of the degree to which the Self/World is shared and thereby the degree to which an a priori relation exists..


viii Conversation between those who know each other well it becomes a relaxing, tranquilizing break from the effort new interpretation requires, into the familiarity of a well-known set of interpretations and their resulting understandings.


ix The view on the World is perspectival to the individual Self-sense.


x World/Self are essentially pluralistic. Since the shared World has inherently plural origins, there is an evident distortion if only one perspective dominates.


xi The horizons of World involve space and time as pure intuitions, as Kant perceived, but space and time have to be reinterpreted as topological place and originary temporality. This also requires that the dimensionality of each be reinterpreted as horizonal.


xii The notion of the Subject is a unitary interpretation of the pluralistic Self. The Subject is essentially invental as a response to the evental, and as a result a fleeting phenomenon, once the evental situation that gives rise to the Subject is over and the Self becomes engrossed in everydayness the Subject ceases to actualize.


xiii The Subject is also simplistic in that most parameters of which the Self is cognizant are left out in order to make possible timely decisions in an ethical situation, as well as to perceive the Self as an actor within-the-World rather than self-identical with the World it itself experiences.


xiv The assessing "step back" is phenomenologically the experience of inventing the Subject. Since this "step back" is also key to the conceptual view conceptuality is essentially subjective, only in this way could it also be objective.


xv Ethics also thereby becomes essentially subjective, hence the need in any situational assessment of the ethics of one's actions (such as the legal system) motives and intentions become necessary, whereas under the moral law motive and intention were irrelevant.


xvi This invention of the conceptual stance via the Subject is the original experience of metaphysics. The posited unity of the Subject is also the root of the metaphysical demand for a unitary origin as a necessary part of explanation.


xvii The conceptual is of necessity one sided in its view, resulting in inherent abstraction in its understanding. The 'Notion' in Hegel that results from the overcoming of one sided conceptualization thereby makes possible the understanding of the concrete. In terms of ethics this both concretizes the situation and permits a simultaneous view of options rather than an oscillation between them.


xviii The options available within a given situation are always the already-projected possibilities open within the situational horizon. The act of projection itself potentiates specific possibilities, simultaneously rendering others inaccessible. Unless those potentials are actualized they can be reprojected as inaccessible possibilities when different possibilities are potentiated.