The space of sense

Before even 'I' become a human being, already there is a space where 'that' of the human sense is spread out. Before 'I' do despair, for example, already there is a space where 'that' despairs. Hope is present or absent from a human 'Umwelt'. It affects a space qualitatively. Its like the climate of a sunny region. There are spaces where its absence is striking. Hope is dwelling differently in various spaces through time. And everywhere it takes a different form.

Every conceivable system is already included in an anthropological meta-system. Beginning with, our intelligibilities which are already located in a more including possibility of intelligibility. Every included/understood comprehension is carried and included by an including/understanding comprehension.

All our thinking and acting possibilities can never but start from a 'déjà-là' an 'already here'. Our possibilities, whatever progress will come, remain irremediably open on an including precondition. The ultimate including one is man himself. But which man? Shall it be the man locked up on himself or the man open to the 'Other'?

The essential concepts of our condition can be divided into two classes according to whether they are 'closed' or 'open'. The first one enable us to become 'Masters and owners'. They tend towards a minimum of sense and a maximum of power. The second ones expose us into an infinite gaping. They tend towards a maximum of sense and leave us with a minimum of power. You will find the existential sense of humans through concepts of extreme gaping like God, Being, Eternity, Act, Existence, Death, Love, Freedom, Good, Evil… You cannot make the turn of them. You cannot properly include or understand them.

Already is what precedes us, what exceeds us, what we can never manage nor integrate nor include or understand. Thus man, for example, is not starting from a scientific explanation. It is it, this explanation, which presupposes the 'déjà-là' the 'already here' which is man! A big mystery!

The human being is unable to live out of the sense. However sense is not from nothing. Each (particular) sense is always given starting from a larger and more fundamental including sense. Already the simple possibility of saying: “it's absurd” presupposes something like an including possibility of sense. And, ultimately, the Sense of sense.

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