Born, Worked, Died
One of his [Heidegger’s] lectures on Aristotle begins thus:
‘Aristotle was born, worked, and died.’
Thinking is work. Later, Heidegger called thinking handwork: ‘Perhaps thinking, too, is just something like building a cabinet [Schrein]. At any rate, it is handwork. The hand makes thinking a decidedly analogue process.
–excerpt, Non-things by Byung-chul Han, p. 66
Two weeks into November, the seasonal turn has happened. Mild warm weather lingered into fall, but now the air temperature is chilled and a stiff breeze is blowing. Completing pickup of a prescription at Walgreens, as I made my way across the river I noted the Gamon House restaurant which is known for its craft beer menu. Would not a glass of wheat beer at a quiet bar, a philosophy book in hand, be just the highlight of a chilly Saturday afternoon?
Sure enough, it was.
