#giveness

What can a phenomenologist see when they look at the world?

There are some ideas, for example that exceed the capacity for economic thinking, and hence that exceed the human capacity to achieve their reality. Such an idea would be that of a gift. Economically speaking, the gift does not work. It is resistant to calculation, unable to be fully thought, impossible, a black hole. In Derrida’s words, the gift is structured as an aporia. An aporia is, in the Aristotelean sense, a problem. Derrida suggests it is ‘the difficult or the impracticable, here the impossible, passage, the refused, denied, or prohibited passage, indeed the nonpassage, which can in fact be something else, the event of a coming or of a future advent, which no longer has the form of the movement that consists in passing, traversing or transiting.’ In other words, an aporia is a problem that resists being solved, because it defies any usual frame of reference. An aporia is a problem that exceeds our capacity even to hold on to it as a problem. It is resolved, not by reasoning or by proof, but only by decision.

Then why do I choose to love now? Reason is rather simple. I begin to find that people around me need to be loved and nobody should be flouted. Try my best, to give them love and caring.