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suprastructure. Today, thinkers do not employ a tradition- al metaphysical scheme of composition because they refuse any objectifi- cation of the spiritual element in the person, much in the same manner as there is no longer any appeal to 'life' as the explanatory principle for what is living. Plato elaborated
more encompassing than pleasure which entails a more punctual or temporary satisfaction. Where the phrase 'to be happy' evokes a joy about life itself, that expansively radiates in all of one's projects, pleasure, in contrast, seems to remain close to the dynamism that generates it. Both phenomena
, and, by doing so, develop the experience of a living community. The bread and wine fulfill a second symbolic value as well. In them, we witness an ascending movement. It is necessary first for the participants to express their experiences of life in its depths and to form a communal bond among
maxim which announces the task of the ego. It can only become what it must in assuming its pulsional life and its unconscious representations. If they are opposed at this level, in virtue of perhaps a false spiritualism, the ego will cut itself off from its own living forces and exhaust itself in a
various Greek philosophies where human beings, in both their conscious life and organic existence, are a part of nature and therefore, submissive to the laws which regulate the order of nature.6 Even in the psychological studies of Aristotle, nature is part of an individual's natural constitution. The
developing new practices and ways of living, because, as Diamond phrases it, “mastering a concept […] is not just a matter of knowing how to arrange things under that concept; it is to be able to participate in life-with-this-concept. What types of descriptive concepts exist is a question of the different
of sense that motivates these activities. 4 In the end, when an artist improvises alone, without an audience, the artist becomes her own appreciator 5 by feeling or seeing improvisation. My thesis is that artistic improvisation, being neither a mere occurrence nor even an action whose
that Merleau-Ponty from the beginning precisely works against this “spirit-”phenomenology as not finding a place for the natural sensuousness and materiality of incarnated life. The incorporation of intentionality in bodily organic life, however, yields projects aimed at naturalizing consciousness in
information, (4) able to act in the human world in detectable ways and (5) capable of motivating behaviors that reinforce belief. Th at Santa Claus appears to be only inconsistently represented as having all five requisite features Santa has failed to develop a community of true believers and cult
life as well. In the work of Heraclitus, a later thinker, the value is on the ever-changing elements which make up living. One element of this is his conception of time, which is fluid. This conception of time is based on the way time is lived and felt. It is not based on an abstraction formed from