SPELL READING 2: Philosophy on the Way to Ecology

This chapter of the book spoke a lot about reality and existence. It compared Objective Reality and Subjective Experience. Somehow we live and exist somewhere in between the two. Life is a strange kind of balancing act between the physical world and intangible beliefs and ideas. In order to display this strange phenomenon I built a wooden replica of existence. I cut, sanded and glued a beam to a platform and then erected two pillars atom the beam on opposite ends. On one pillar is written "Objective Reality" and on the other is "Subjective Experience." Then between the two pillars is stretched a thin sketchy ladder. Hanging from the center of the ladder is a plaque the reads "Exist" on one side and then "Life" on the other. This is to replicate how our lives dangle precariously in the vast expanse between objectivity and subjectivity as well as reality and perceived experience.