Paria Esmaeil Khorasani
Student #: 500475999
CPHL 709
Religion, Science and Philosophy
Mon/Wed
June 5, 2016
1671 words
A Discussion About Philip K. Dick’s Exegesis
Philip K. Dick’s exegesis, above being a theological exploration, is a philosophical and cosmological investigation into the world and being. Philip K. Dick attempts to understand his own being and his surrounding world by alluding to the existing knowledge of the past while arriving at something new on his own. My Focus on this paper is on an excerpt of his work from pages 606 to 608 that mainly focuses on three themes. These themes that reappear throughout his work include the concept of time and a time outside of time, as we understand it, the distinction of the …show more content…
Dick’s text is argued for in an inconsistent manner. Dick later on his contemplations states that “I can at last comprehend it, how in change, ceaseless change- through the dialectic- it is always the same” (698). This sustains the idea that Dick is thinking about these matters in a dialectical manner, meaning that he sees these concepts in an organic and changing manner. Thus, in a sense, Dick is ‘remembering’ and ‘recollecting’ and he is writing, concepts being revealed to him from the noumenal realm, and enlightening him along his path. It is thus not an inconsistency that we encounter, but an improvement upon his conception of freedom of the will, which is now more divine as it is closer to the noumenal realm. This fluidity and metamorphosing nature of the world from Dick’s perspective is also evident when he remarks, “For decades I have sought to see “the permanent world of unchanged behind the flux”…when I finally saw it it turned out to be historical exemplar situation, a dramatic one, in fact a narrative” (608) [83:95]. This narrative of the world, rather than being a fixated entity, is a narrative that develops, as it is dramatic in the sense that it is unexpected and
Student #: 500475999
CPHL 709
Religion, Science and Philosophy
Mon/Wed
June 5, 2016
1671 words
A Discussion About Philip K. Dick’s Exegesis
Philip K. Dick’s exegesis, above being a theological exploration, is a philosophical and cosmological investigation into the world and being. Philip K. Dick attempts to understand his own being and his surrounding world by alluding to the existing knowledge of the past while arriving at something new on his own. My Focus on this paper is on an excerpt of his work from pages 606 to 608 that mainly focuses on three themes. These themes that reappear throughout his work include the concept of time and a time outside of time, as we understand it, the distinction of the …show more content…
Dick’s text is argued for in an inconsistent manner. Dick later on his contemplations states that “I can at last comprehend it, how in change, ceaseless change- through the dialectic- it is always the same” (698). This sustains the idea that Dick is thinking about these matters in a dialectical manner, meaning that he sees these concepts in an organic and changing manner. Thus, in a sense, Dick is ‘remembering’ and ‘recollecting’ and he is writing, concepts being revealed to him from the noumenal realm, and enlightening him along his path. It is thus not an inconsistency that we encounter, but an improvement upon his conception of freedom of the will, which is now more divine as it is closer to the noumenal realm. This fluidity and metamorphosing nature of the world from Dick’s perspective is also evident when he remarks, “For decades I have sought to see “the permanent world of unchanged behind the flux”…when I finally saw it it turned out to be historical exemplar situation, a dramatic one, in fact a narrative” (608) [83:95]. This narrative of the world, rather than being a fixated entity, is a narrative that develops, as it is dramatic in the sense that it is unexpected and