A body’s deepest interest is dissolving its fixed identity into the cosmos
Evidence
The imagination, as the sum of the astra within each individual, bestowed the power to create visible images of the astra through the application of art. It was the source of an inner knowledge of the divine plan, vital action in the mundane world, and was so powerful that it could reciprocally affect the heavens whence the astra initially derived. But because the astra acted out of necessity, reason must be used to control their power so that nature could be used purposively. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 513 (
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Consciousness is the revealed-revelation of existents, and existents appear before consciousness on the foundation of their being. Nevertheless the primary characteristic of the being of an existent is never to reveal itself completely to consciousness. An existent can not be stripped of its being; being is the ever present foundation of the existent; it is everywhere in it and nowhere. There is no being which is not the being of a certain mode of being, none which can not be apprehended through the mode of being which manifests being and veils it at the same time. Consciousness can always pass beyond the existent, not toward its being, but toward the meaning of this being. That is why we call it ontic-ontological, since a fundamental characteristic of its transcendence is to transcend the ontic toward the ontological. The meaning of the being of the existent in so far as it reveals itself to consciousness is the phenomenon of being. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 154 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The body functions as a sign surpassed toward meaning; Instrumental observation fragments objects into measurable parts; contemplation surrenders to the whole image.; Consciousness transcends toward the meaning of being, not being itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 154 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- The body functions as a sign surpassed toward meaning
#expands(0.75) - The imagination linked body and cosmos and required reason to control
#corroborates(0.74) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 513 - Consciousness transcends toward the meaning of being, not being itself
#qualifies(0.71) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 154 - Instrumental observation fragments objects into measurable parts; contemplation surrenders to the whole image.
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