‘The one is only the other deferred, the one differing from the other. The one is the other in differance, the one is the differance from the other.’
This corresponds to the idea splashed out in ‘A Piece of Thought’ owing to Adorno, Negative Dialectics.
Filed by Satoru Shimada at 6:05 am under Personal Statements
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The way to acheive happiness is to pursue something else.
Filed by Satoru Shimada at 5:26 am under Personal Statements
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Thinking is positing or identifying something against something else. By the act of thinking itself, we are negating that which we are thinking against. Therefore, thinking is both positive and negative. Then, reasoing, a coherent process of thinking, has also a contradictory element by and in itself, because it affirms a point by affirming the counter-point that reasoing tries to discredit in the first place. Reason is not to deny a counter-point but to be aware of what its counter-point is. Thus, identity is also non-identity. Knowing what we are not makes us what we are. Therefore, if there is no otherness, there is none. The elimination of otherness is the elimination of sameness. Otherness is in sameness, and sameness is in otherness. This is the legitimate limit of reason. It is as it is and as it should always be unless it wishes to destory itself by denying its otherness.
For this, I owe a debt to Adorno’s ‘Negative Dialectics’.
Filed by Satoru Shimada at 4:36 am under Personal Statements
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From all the philosophies I have learned, from all the experiences I have had, one thing comes to my mind; that is, “perspective comes before reason”. What is my perspective? What does this mean to me?
Filed by Satoru Shimada at 3:22 am under Personal Statements
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