'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'
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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'
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practical knowing
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December 12, 2005
In an essay entitled "Merleau-Ponty and the Epistemological Picture," Charles Taylor describes the phenomenon of tacit knowledge:
As I navigate my way along the path up the hill, my mind totally absorbed in anticipating the difficult conversation I'm going to have at my destination, I treat the different features of the terrain as obstacles, supports, openings, invitations to tread more warily, or run freely, and so on. Even when I'm not thinking of themthese things have those relevancies for me. Taylor Carman & Mark B.N. Hansen, Eds, The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, p.34.
We respond to these affordances in this situation-specific way when we are intensely involved in what we are doing, as when negotiating a dangerous intersection, and also when we are completely absorbed in something else. In either case, we are capable of coping concretely without thinking at all.
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