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Philosophie

Wenn die Macht der Vereinigung aus dem Leben der Menschen verschwindet,
und die Gegensätze ihre lebendige Beziehung und Wechselwirkung verloren haben
und Selbständigkeit gewinnen, entsteht das Bedürfnis der Philosophie. (Hegel)

why love is a solution

Place du Châtelet: A stranger, Nana the unwitting philosopher

- Mind if I look?
- No

- You look bored
- Not at all

- What are you doing?
- I'm reading
- Will you buy me a drink?
- If you like
- Do you come here often?
- Occasionally. I happened by
- Why are you reading?
- It's my job
- It's odd. Suddenly I don't know what to say; it often happens to me. I know what I want to say. I think about whether it is what I mean. But when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it
- Yes, of course. You've read 'The Three Musketeers'?
- I saw the film. Why?
- Because in it, Porthos, in fact it is not in 'The Musketeers', this is really in 'Twenty Years Later', Porthos, tall, strong, a little stupid, he's never thought in his life. He has to place a bomb in a cellar to blow it up. He does it. He places the bomb, lights the fuse, then he runs away, of course. But suddenly he begins to think. What about? How it is possible to put one foot before the other? You must have thought about that, too. So he stops running. He can't go on, he can't move forward. The bomb explodes, the cellar falls on him. He holds it up with his shoulders. But after a day, or maybe two, he is crushed to death. The first time he thought, it killed him
- Why did you tell me that story?
- No reason, just to talk.
- Why must one always talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean
- Perhaps, but can one?
- I don't know
- I've found that we can't live without talking
- I'd like to live without talking
- Yes, it would be nice, wouldn't it? Like loving one another more. But it isn't possible
- But why? Words should express just what one wants to say. Do they betray us?
- But we betray them, too. One should be able to express oneself. It has been done in writing. Think: someone like Plato can still be understood - he can. Yet he wrote in Greek, 2.500 years ago. No one really knows the language, at least, not exactly. Yet something gets through, so we should be able to express ourselves. And we must
- Why must we? To understand each other?
- We must think, and for thought we need words. There's no other way to think. To communicate, one must talk; that is our life
- Yes, but it is very difficult. I think life should be easy. Your talk of The Three Musketeers may make a good story but it's terrible
- Yes, but it's a pointer. I believe one learns to talk well only when one has renounced life for a time. That's the price
- So, to speak is fatal?
- Speaking is almost a resurrection in relation to life. Speech is another life from when one does not speak. So, to live in speech one must pass through the death of life without speech. I may not be putting it clearly, but there is a kind of ascetic rule that stops one from talking well until one sees life with detachment.
- But one can't live everyday life with... I don't know
- With detachment. We balance, that's why we pass from silence to words. We swing between the two because it's the movement of life. From everyday life one rises to a life we call superior, the thinking life. But this life presupposes one has killed the everyday, too elementary life
- Then thinking and talking are the same thing?
- So I believe. Plato said so; it's an old idea. One cannot distinguish the thought from the words that express it. An instant of thought can only be grasped through words.
- So one must talk and risk lying?
- Lies, too, are part of our quest. Errors and lies are very similar. I don't mean ordinary lies, like I promise to come tomorrow, but I don't, as I didn't want to. You see, those are ploys. But a subtle lie is little different from an error. One searches and can't find the right word. That's why you didn't know what to say. You were afraid of not finding the right word. That's the explanation
- How can one be sure of having found the right word?
- One must work. It needs an effort. One must speak in a way that is right, doesn't hurt, says what has to be said, does what has to be done without hurting or bruising.
- One must try to be in good faith. Someone told me: "There is truth in everything, even in error."
- That's true. France didn't see it in the seventeenth century. They thought one could avoid error and what's more, that one could live directly in the truth. It isn't possible Hence Kant, Hegel, German philosophy: to bring us back to life and make us see that we must pass through error to arrive at the truth
- What do you think about love?
- The body had to come into it. Leibnitz introduced the contingent. Contingent truths and necessary truths make up life. German philosophy showed us that in life, one thinks with the servitudes and errors of life. One must manage with that, that's true
- Shouldn't love be the only truth?
- For that, love would always have to be true. Do you know anyone who knows at once what he loves? No. When you're twenty you don't know. All you know are bits and pieces, you make arbitrary choices. Your "I love" is an impure affair. But to be completely at one with what you love, you need maturity. That means searching. This is the truth of life. That's why love is a solution, on condition that it is true.

- my life to live / vivre sa vie (1962)

Erfindungen

"Es ist seltsam, wie viel erfinden müssen, um das Leben zu verstehen, denn was wäre die Realität ohne die Einsicht ihrer Erfindung, was für einen Wert hätte die Wahrheit ohne den Komfort des Humors und welche Wahrheit die Liebe ohne das Schicksal jener, die leiden?"

- Wolf Wondratschek

Kunst

Wenn wir eigentlich alle Lebenskünstler sind,
ist Liebe ein gemeinsam geschaffenes Kunstwerk.

life doesn't write books on life

Bird don't write books on aerodynamics. -Nassim Taleb

Trennung zur Ausdehnung

Trennung findet statt, wenn Ausdehnung nach Raum verlangt.

freedom of choice

Zwei Möglichkeiten stehen zur Wahl. Die eine ist der Weg der Verschönerung und äußerer Brillanz, die zweite ist der Weg der Einfachheit und des inneren Glanzes. Die Aufrichtigkeit der wahren Natur zeigt sich in schlichter Vornehmheit. Dies ist der Weg der Einfachheit.

LFNT-Prinzip

Es ist ihm vorbestimmt, seine Ziele durch langsames, schrittweises Vorgehen zu erreichen. Er verliert angesichts des bereits Erreichten nicht den Kopf und angesichts des noch anstehenden Weges nicht den Mut. Er fährt mit Ruhe und Gelassenheit fort, die ihm auch bisher das Heil gewährten.

wake up

- They come here every day to sleep?
- No. They come to be woken up. The dream has become their reality.

Inception (2010)

ego cogito, ergo sum

„Nun hatte ich beobachtet, daß in dem Satz: „Je pense, donc je suis“ überhaupt nur dies mir die Gewißheit gibt, die Wahrheit zu sagen, daß ich klar einsehe, daß man, um zu denken, sein muß.“ (Descartes - Discours de la méthode, 1637)

Organismus vs Mechanismus

Der Begriff Organismus steht sowohl für ein einzelnes Lebewesen als auch für die Gesamtheit, das System, aller Organe, die sich wie ein Lebewesen 'verhalten'. Durch diesen Begriff wird eine rekursive Auffassung des Lebensprinzips zum Ausdruck gebracht und gleichzeitig der fraktale Aufbau der Lebensform aufgezeigt. Das ist ein schlichter, Zeit und Raum unabhängiger, sprachbedingter Ausdruck -- ideeller Ausdruck -- des menschlichen Bewusstseins einer tiefgründigen realitätsnahen Reflexion über das Leben.
Auf der anderen Seite steht dem sprachbegabten, soziopolitisch- sprichwörtlich sprachbedingten menschlichen Bewusstsein eine Vorstellung zur Verfügung, um historisch relevantes Handeln zu modellieren, das zeitnahes Wirken illustriert. Daraus entspringt die Vorstellung vom Mechanismus, die aber nie ein Lebewesen hervorbringen kann, weil ein Mechanismus stets als eine separate Einheit betrachtet, die idealerweise Zeit und Raum (Kontext) unabhängig operieren kann. Unkontrollierte naturgemäße Interaktionen werden als Interferenzen bezeichnet und als Störungen bekämpft, um Isolation herzustellen. Daher schafft diese Denkweise, auf das Leben angewandt, langfristig ineffiziente Umstände. Solche Umstände, separatistisch behandelt, können nur Kettenreaktionen der Ineffizienz hervorrufen.
Wir, als Menschheit, befinden uns evolutionsbedingt in einem Zeitalter, wo das Gehirn Areale entwickelte, die für das Modellieren prädestiniert sind und dementsprechend das Modellieren üben, um das Wirken in der materiellen Welt zum menschlichen Bestandteil zu machen, während spielerischer Erforschung der Lebensräume. Wie die Kinder können wir leider ohne Aufsicht wegen dieser Monomanie nicht überleben.
Jene transzendierende Denkweise, die sich die monolithische Engstirnigkeit konventioneller Haltung vor Augen führt, erzielt Lebensfreude und handelt danach, wird als radikale Utopie abgelehnt, bekämpft oder als Weisheit mystifizierend verehrt.