Theories of the Logos by Ermanno Bencivenga

Author:Ermanno Bencivenga
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Here cinematography is the measuring, or conceptual, stick we bring to reality, which ends up giving us only the illusion of reaching it, while it reaches only itself. But why do we do this? Because our interest is practical: we are not so much interested in what reality is as in what we can do with it—not in what the distance really is between us and an object but in how the object can be manipulated and made serviceable to our purposes.

The function of the intellect is to preside over actions. Now, in action, it is the result that interests us; the means matter little provided the end is attained…. The intellect … only represents to the activity ends to attain, that is to say, points of rest. And, from one end attained to another end attained, from one rest to another rest, our activity is carried by a series of leaps, during which our consciousness is turned away as much as possible from the movement going on, to regard only the anticipated image of the movement accomplished…. Our activity is fitted into the material world. If matter appeared to us as a perpetual flowing, we should assign no termination to any of our actions…. In order that our activity may leap from an act to an act, it is necessary that matter should pass from a state to a state, for it is only into a state of the material world that action can fit a result, so as to be accomplished. (ibid., pp. 315–316)

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