Reasoning about Nature Phenomenologically

Reasoning about nature phenomenologically is the giving an account of nature as it comes to consciousness in us. In coming to consciousness in us nature both manifests itself and through that manifestation transcends itself. In following the movement of that self-transcendence questions of divinity and of humanity are inescapable. Those questions are not questions out of time and space, but rather questions which are at once metaphysical and historical: what is divinity, means what has divinity become and what is to come of it, similarly the question what is the human, means what has the human become and what will become of it. It may indeed be the case that the answer to those two questions end in death: the death of god and the death of the human. In both cases, we are asking about the future. But we are also asking about the past and the present and about the immemorial past in the present. The latter is named as apeiron, chora, prime matter, pure possibility. In reasoning about nature, we are asking to what, given the contingency of all things, we can be faithful. At the heart of reasoning is commitment to what appears both as what is and what should be