Movement Gives Meaning to Time

[coberst]

I have been reading “The Meaning of the Body” by Mark Johnson, the coauthor of “Philosophy in the Flesh” with George Lakoff.

 

In writing about our human visceral level of contact with the world Johnson points out the philosophical nature of “objects” and “subjects” as portrayed by Kant, Dewey, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

 

Kant points out that “subject” and “object” are counterparts inseparable in experience. Maurice and Dewey show us “that subjects and objects are abstractions from the interactive process of experience out of which emerge what we call people and things. There is no split of self and other in the primacy of our experience, and so we are never utterly separated from things.”

 

I wonder if it might be proper to think of space as the contribution of the ‘outer world’ whereas time is the contribution of our ‘inner world’ to experience.

 

Movement is the tie that binds the outer world with the inner world as the foundation of experience.

[paigetheoracle]

I have been reading “The Meaning of the Body” by Mark Johnson, the coauthor of “Philosophy in the Flesh” with George Lakoff.

 

In writing about our human visceral level of contact with the world Johnson points out the philosophical nature of “objects” and “subjects” as portrayed by Kant, Dewey, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

 

Kant points out that “subject” and “object” are counterparts inseparable in experience. Maurice and Dewey show us “that subjects and objects are abstractions from the interactive process of experience out of which emerge what we call people and things. There is no split of self and other in the primacy of our experience, and so we are never utterly separated from things.”

 

I wonder if it might be proper to think of space as the contribution of the ‘outer world’ whereas time is the contribution of our ‘inner world’ to experience.

 

Movement is the tie that binds the outer world with the inner world as the foundation of experience.

 

Nicely put and I'd agree with this description of the last two points as for the Kant point, your post on the ego covers this I believe i,e, the brake on/break with reality that creates object/ subject as opposed to the connection that links both, welding the dichotomy together through action as opposed to separating it through thought (analysis is taking things apart to understand them as synthesis is putting them together to make them work):naughty: