i just saw a film called ‘waking life’ which was almost a monument to the activity of philosophy. it ran through many philosophical questions, arguably all, and in the process made me see beyond the blurry line that separates the analytic and continental tradition. questions usually posed and mused over by analytic thinkers somehow started (for me) to personalise their outcomes. maybe i only felt this, because i was thinking round the ideas being spoken, and also because it was irridescent with aesthetic substance, and that this fooled me into seeing the questions posed in a more personal light.
even so, ‘waking life’ initiated some cerebral activity which threw hegel’s triad dialectic, what we percieve as order and disorder and which does what, and also why the (disorderly) music stirred me, yet the animated visuals created an aesthetic environment for such depth of thought, all into question.
it is very much a film not to be judged whilst watching, but more to be immersed in. its beauty, the music, the ideas, how they might bring clarity to you.
has anybody else seen this film, and if so, i’d really like to know what impressions you gained from it.
one impression it had on me, was concerning the event of somebody accusing another of pretence - this being the accusation that some person is trying to make themselves look more important than they actually are. yet the person making the accusation does not understand (currently, or as a matter of condition) the idea being made. : what one person sees as order, another sees as disorder (imagination’, ‘movement’, ‘dream’, ‘progress’). good is themselves, and evil/disorder/or merely indifference is outside of themsleves. this inevitably leads to differing moralities, the ‘genealogy of’. yet if people are aware of their own learning, and aware of the disorder, and imagination needed to advance their view (‘the antithesis stage’), would they cease to be conscious of their own morality?
the ultimate question is : if all were able to see ‘outside’ their own moral maze, and hence were all ‘extelligent’ as opposed to ‘intelligent’, would the end to the ‘genealogy of morals’ see a universal morality, or no morality at all … ? … ? … ? …