Tuesday, June 23, 2009

non-objectification

"This pure rational concept of beauty, if such could be found, would therefore-since it cannot derive from any actual case, but rather itself corrects and regulates our judgment of every actual case-have to be discovered by a process of abstraction, and deduced from the sheer potentialities of our sensuo-rational nature. In a single word, beauty would have to be shown to be a necessary condition of human being. From now on, then, we must lift our thoughts to the pure concept of human nature; and since experience never shows us human nature as such, but only individual human beings in individual situations, we must endeavor to discover from all these individual and changing manifestations that which is absolute and unchanging, and, by the rejection of all contingent limitations, apprehend the necessary conditions of their existence. True, this transcendental way will lead us out of the familiar circle of phenomenal existence, away from the living presence of things, and cause us to tarry for a while upon the barren and naked land of abstractions. But we are, after all, struggling for a firm basis of knowledge that nothing shall shake. And he who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth."

(non-objectification) - if you 'venture' outside actuality by your own means you will venture into falsehood (ideology, objectification). If you tune in to and open up to the supernatural (beyond actuality) you make yourself available to transcendent truth (platforms, non-objectification).

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