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Derrida: "What Comes Before The Question?"
Friday, March 06, 2009 - In this intriguing overview of his famous notion of the 'trace,' Derrida critiques the long-standing philosophical 'authority of the question' by examining the conditions for questioning itself ... he argues that presence always presupposes 'Otherness' (a 'primary affirmation') which embodies a 'return'...to a 'different temporality older than the past and beyond the future' - a different 'past,' 'present,' or 'future' ...
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3/6/2009 10:12 PM - Maolcolum(Fossil) Bascher

Which in itself give rise to question? Before which is the human need to understand. What? Why? How? From where comes? The state of being, as it is understood within the present. That which is neither past.present or future. But a state of now! Neither the moment before or the moment after. In a Human sense.

But the Granite of a land, does not hold such awareness, yet still hold the absolute of being. In that. All things exist in relation to each other. Be it a Insect or a tree. A human Being or a Mountain. Before is the question on which we base our philosophical understanding. Is the catalyst of question. Held within the very stuff of Substance. The absolute centre of which must needs be seen as a seed. Within which is held all the codes for being.

The sense of an abolute being does not alter. The tree that has died and been absorbed into the earth, is still within a state of being. The pebble that become sand likewise. The Human Being, that is bone, dust or ash from the fire. Still within a state of being. But within a state that holds a human question, as to whether that state is of awareness, or non awareness?  Being within a flux of a change of state, does not undergo change. It is the material that holds being that undergoes change, but being which is the substance of all things does not cease to exist. It simply being substance itself. That which exist in being,is within its own cause without cause. The absolute of question?

The catalyst of question may well be  a probable, it is a logical possibility. That the seed holds a code that create the intellectual question of being. That the seed holds intellectual abiity to reason its own being and seeks to allow a further understanding of our Human State. Having created that human state. Whether from an intended desire to create, or from a sense of its own absolute state.

The before question?  Reasons the denial of absolute of Athesism. In that Human question as does exist and cause as the before question. Are held firmly within that single human question. In each and every one of us. Are we indeed created by an absolute reasoning being. Or are we but an accident within space and time? If it be the school of creation, then we can reason. That the before question is held with a Godhead. If it be that we are accident. Then it become a question of scientific pursuit and not one of philosophy. As philosophy is based on faith. Whether it be of religious faith, or faith in our human condition. That of being.

How-ever! This is but a laymans point of view.

Fossil

London. 6th March 2009.

Markus Vinzent
King's College London
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