Tuesday, May 5, 2009

illusion

"We are drawn towards a thing because we believe it is good. We end by being chained to it because it has become necessary.

Things of the senses are real if they are considered perceptible things, but unreal if considered as goods.

Appearance has the completeness of reality, but only as appearance. As anything other than appearance it is error."
The moment of perception is a definitive moment in understanding reality, for once we perceive and object we can do only one of two things. We can either consider it a good (objectification) or consider it as an appearance (non-objectification, or Grace).

Weil also refers to the partial aspects of goods- reminding me of Guitarri and the partial object which led me into the proposition for partial spaces

Furthermore, to say something is good and draw our selves nearer is also a form of objectification. Good being a category only projected out of our own subjectivity can only be good as appearance- as shadowy representations in the cave. God is the only declarer of what is and what is not Good. So it is those things we attach our own subjectivity to (self-projective identification) which we ultimately become slaves to (attachment). And slaves we have become without knowledge of here nor there only by means of relating to these things as "necessity." This illusion has fostered our culture industry and separated us from reality to such a degree, that even our relation to God has suffered violently.

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