What is a Situation?
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
11-2021
Department 1
Philosophy
Abstract
Sometimes we “walk into a situation” without even realizing it and do not know how to walk out of it. While we often “encounter a situation” that we must immediately “face,” at other times we may be able to sit back and “see how it unfolds” before taking any action. All these idioms, expressive of our conventional understanding, suggest that a situation is something that exists before our encounter with it; something that is out there before we can even notice and acknowledge it; something that, in sum, possesses a separate and independent existence with identity and boundaries of its own. [excerpt]
ISBN/ISSN
9781931483506
Recommended Citation
Valmisa, Mercedes (2021). What is a Situation? In Livia Kohn (ed.), Coming to Terms with Timelessness. Daoist Time in Comparative Perspective. Three Pine Press. pp. 26-49.
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