Friendship as a prayer
the quote from Jacques Derrida had already made up right as the motto on my blog. And because the two sets do not let go, and I quote it again today. In his Politics of Friendship, "Derrida writes:" Friendship is never an actual fact, it is the experience of waiting, the promise or commitment given over. Its discourse is that of prayer, he stated no, he creates, he calmed down not to what is, he is on the way to that place where a particular responsibility opens in the future. "
The first sentence contains a paradox. First it is said that the friendship "never an actual fact" is, but then to have an "experience" is what evidence suggests that it is experienced in the present. The experience refers to the waiting, the promise or commitment - as long as we in the present (? On the friendship of the friend on my willingness to actually be a friend) can wait as long as we stick to a promise is friendship as an experience there.
your discourse is the prayer ... In prayer, we focus on something bigger, something that goes beyond ourselves, to something divine. We believe (imagine, suppose hope?) That the greater use really exists, we noted, hear us, even if it is not objectively and tangibly present in the present. Prayer is an attempt to reconnect, which constitutes the essence of religion: In the prayer we are trying to restore a lost relationship.
He (the discourse of friendship) stated nothing ... Ascertaining numerical means on a beautiful German: find, fix, THEREFORE, YOU something, write something a clear meaning. In the discourse of friendship, everything remains in limbo, a condition that is sometimes hard to endure, as it makes us in our insecurities not exactly encouraged. We are inclined to again and again, give us with judgments (about friends and enemies) to collateral.
He donates ... Derrida does not say: the discourse of friendship "is based," but "creates", which is more of an airy, fiery affair. The etymological origin of the word, according to Duden 7 unknown, revealed in old words such as "collegiate" and phrases such as "mischief" still the original meaning. Pins is "causing" something like - in the present experience of waiting for something caused that unfolds as an effect only in the future.
He does not calm at what is ... Even if you wait in peace - Serenity is a high virtue - is not one in which what is, but in what still is not, in other words, this is what is perfect as something imperfect in his in-his coming- taken. That is what is not being taken as something that soothes, but it is reversed taken alone as something that points to something in its incompleteness Coming.
He is on the way to that place where a particular responsibility opens into the future ... In friendship (which is a never-current conditions) is felt a responsibility that does not exist yet, but will open only in the future. The responsibility not yet there, so I understand Derrida, in the presence but does have an obligation. Quite apart from the wonderful phrase, that responsibilities are OPEN surprised at this point of Derrida's final leap into the future. Unknown responsibilities that do not exist in the present, lead to commitments in the present, a present, however, that there really is not when you "move", that is on the rise.
The view Derrida opens the friendship a responsibility that does not exist yet. Thus, she is associated with a specific and extremely relevant obligation, which means above all: not set do not want to judge, so, instead: want to wait, pray and do promise to do. In friendship is celebrated on a persistent difference, the open future. And as Derrida speaks of a prayer, I understand it so that it involves, in his view only once for an internal activity, first of all ...
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