Posted in Capitalism, Pragmatics, Technology on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had the oppertunity to test the new Ford Taurus quite extensively this weekend, by driving a rental example from Toronto to Kimberly, Ontario and back – about 150km each way.
It’s interesting to compare this new car to my parents 1988 Ford Taurus – in some ways they are different, but in some very similar. [...]
Posted in Being, Capitalism, Ethics, Technology, beginning, writing on March 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Concerning Nietzsche 4, page 40.
How we encounter things is contingent upon how we orient ourselves towards them. Because we encounter things as existing for-themselves, as self-standing on their own, we can say of them that they are a “thing”, i.e. a door. The counterfactual implication being, if we did not encounter things as standing-on-their-own, we [...]
