Friday, August 9, 2013

Architecture, World, Environment

Nietzsche seems to not recognize that the formulation "No inner and outer in the world", from Human, All Too Human #15, is incoherent.  For, if there is no given "inner" in the world, then the locution 'in the world' is meaningless.  More precisely, the concept of 'world' in the locution entails Enclosure, and, hence, does not exist as given either, according to the formulation.  Likewise, an 'environment', i. e. that within which something exists, is also an Artifactual concept, though that is not to say that there does not exist atmosphere, trees, the ground, etc.  Rather, it is to assert that the concept of humans as 'in' the latter, not 'of' it, is an interpretation derived from the experience of being inside a building.  So, insofar as Architecture creates Enclosure, as has been previously proposed, it is the origin of the familiar concept of 'Environment'.

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