Compatibilism as a solution to a philosophical problem doesn’t really have much to do with this post. I’m using the word in such a way as to describe the condition of things (in this case, two people for the most part) being compatible. (I’ll have to read that article, it seems a very concise but informative discussion of that philosophical concept.)
In this writing, this thought collection, I want to talk about the importance of the overlapping of experience, of habits, or mannerisms, of likes, of dislikes, by people and that as a basis for relationships. It seems in my observation of friendship and by extension love. Parenthetically, love seems a very focused friendship, one in which compatibilsm is taken to it’s highest degree and in the friendship the individual is at it’s most minimized and the collective one-ness of two people becomes more important and greater than the sum of the parts.
Perhaps I am overly concentrated on the idea that overlapping of selves is the basis for friendship, but as of now I have not been able to posit another equally applicable paradigm for the exploration of friendship. (This also reminds me to reread the sections of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics that deal with Friendship, I believe an entire section is devoted to it, I’ll have to dust off my copy.)
I’m not sure the usual length of these posts will allow me to even get to the meat of what I’d like to discuss. It seems as is a friendship is built largely out of that which intersects in the two individuals and the more these intersections occur then the greater the compatabilism. This can also be applied to the falling out of people with old friends. This shows a sort of lag in the updating of these intersections, showing a slowness to see otherness in one we have seen ourselves, also explaining why some are slow to see behavior they judge distasteful in close friends. This is growing to be more and more disjointed, I’ll have to come back to this in the morning when I’m more coherent, perhaps getting into some solid conclusion and out of the realms of theory and definition.
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[yeah, still. (I have to be awake in less than 2.5 hours to go to the doctor and have some tests done). ]