The aesthetics of stopping, learning from experience.

 The aesthetics of stopping, learning from experience.


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According to John Dewey, experience consists of both active and passive.


Putting your hand into the fire is an active experience. On the other hand, burning your hands in a fire is a passive experience. Through this experience, we say, 'If you put your hand into a fire, you will get burned. So you must never put your hand into the fire again.'



Dewey says that the lessons he learns come from the passive 'experience' of putting one's hands on the fire, not the active 'do'.


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Human thought is triggered by passive 'experience' rather than active 'doing'. Don't think while you're doing something diligently. When I do not apply force to an object, but when an object returns a force to me, it is 'experience' to feel the repulsive force. When something is bounced off, that is, when 'ham' hits an object and goes through a repulsion, people begin to think.


When we are aware of the presence of an object and think about its power, we think deeply. I have to realize the reality of that power, so I don't focus on other things and focus on what happened to me. This concentration is nothing but an idea. In order to focus like this, you have to do nothing else.


In order to think, in order to learn a lesson through thought, a body must be built that can stand still.


The body that knows how to stop, this body is the body that thinks.

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