The design of vigilance is one task I give philosophy: prototyping practices that keep the source of all knowledge in view even as knowledge multiplies in the sciences. I borrow the vigilance from Merleau-Ponty. The technologies are from India and other contemplative traditions, from simple breath awareness on up.
How the word moved
I wrote about it in December 2020, in the Cliden series. Vigilance doesn't happen on its own, which is why the contemplatives built techniques for it. Philosophy can do the same kind of building, and it's a job about the present.
In my words
"Philosophy as vigilance design isn’t about the past."
from T2B31: Cliden 4, 10 Dec 2020
Related
- Related Philosopher as Conceptual Designer - It's the paired function: one designs concepts, the other designs vigilance.