Usefulness
Harman — on Heidegger
"Our primary relationship with objects lies not in perceiving or theorizing about them, but simply in relying on them for some ulterior purpose."
Page Number:
P. 192
Bibliographic Reference:
- G. Harman, “On vicarious causation,” Collapse: Philosophical Research and Development 2 (2007): 187–221.
Harman — ready to hand
"To be ‘ready-to-hand’ does not mean to be useful in the narrow sense, but to withdraw into subterranean depths that other objects rely on despite never fully probing or sounding them."
Page Number:
P. 193
Bibliographic Reference:
- G. Harman, “On vicarious causation,” Collapse: Philosophical Research and Development 2 (2007): 187–221.
