Hierarchy Index Cards - J
James
‘Entities can’t sum themselves together’ says James. He is right, about entities as OBJECTS. Objects cannot & do not live active lives; only subjects do that, using objects as the protoplasmic material of their life. But objects sum entities in 2 ways — as objects and as other subjects.
Card-J-05-09.
DH: We are, as it were, hollow-men. We are the hollow men. We live at our periphery. We ignore our insides — very rightly and properly.
Card-J-05-18. Reading James. Working out the way we see things.
DH: ”Alice has a Purpose, she therefore sees her ‘instruments’ rather than anything else. You know what you can use. We see with a practical eye. We see all things as potential extensions of ourself.”
Card-J-05-20. DH: “Then a thing needs all its knowers (all bent on practical purpose, for knowledge is teleological) to be itself, to be equipped with its full quota of essences. Now, as you develop, & as in Time you embrace many purposes, so does your stake in the object grow, & you acknowledge more & more of its aspects or essences. You realise others’ interests in it.”
Index Card J-05
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