Tag: World

• June 20, 2014

  And if the world weren’t broken?

  It is often said that the world is broken and thus in need of fixing. I do not think so. We would not say that something is broken unless we also thought that it had once been intact. Something that is intact has all its pieces together, with each piece connected in the proper fashion to…
• June 19, 2014

  4 responses to the world’s being broken

  Suppose you begin with the thought that the world in its entirety is broken. Then, there are only four possible ways of responding to its brokenness: return it to a prior state before it was broken, bring it to a new state that is better off than the broken state, smash the broken thing and begin…
• June 16, 2014

  ‘All things could potentially go wrong’

  I have returned from Banff and now take up again the arguments that make up our modern moral metaphysic. They are: 1.) Because the world is lost and fallen, it needs to be changed or ultimately saved. 2.) Because the world is broken or out-of-order, it needs to be fixed or restored. 3.) Constituted by problems,…
• May 24, 2014

  Mind and world: Isolation or world-involvement

  Recall where we are. We are in the midst of dismantling an erroneous picture of the mind and, in so doing, we are making it possible to inquire into the everyday mental activities we perform: into how they operate, into how they involve us n the world, and into how to bring them out when they…
• May 10, 2014

  How the ‘problematized world’ can never become a home

  My last post rushed to this conclusion: ‘Thus, the problem-solver who tries to make the world into a home cannot do so.’ Let me try again, this time more slowly, in order to reach this conclusion. Recall that the kind of person we are describing believes that, in a basic sort of way, the world is full of problems and…