The philosopher is condemned to constantly re-examine and redefine our most well-founded concepts, to create new ones from the old ones, to introduce new words to denote them, that is, to work ceaselessly on the true reformation of the mind.
“What Saint Augustine says about time, you. That while it is perfectly familiar to all of us, no one can explain to the other what it is,and we can apply the sane to how we view the world. The philosopher is
condemned to constantly re-examine and redefine our most well-founded concepts, to create new ones from the old ones, to introduce new words to denote them, that is, to work ceaselessly on the true reformation of the mind. This leads to the fact that the evidence of the world, which previously could appear as the most obvious truth, now appears to be based on sophisticated reasoning, so much so that the everyday man no longer even recognizes it for himself, and this awakens the centuries old prejudice against philosophy. Suspicion, criticism, that the usual order of clear and obscure is reversed. No matter how much the philosopher tries to speak in the name of the naive evidence of the world, no matter how much he refrains from adding anything to it and wants to limit himself to thinking through all the consequences of this naive evidence, the situation is only the worse: he deprives humanity all the more of naive from his convictions and forces him to be aware of himselfas a mystery.”
Gabriella Uhl
Sidespecific installation, 100 slices of bread, concrete, snack napkin, 10 pcs. wooden tables.
