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A Discussion of Metaphor

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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The Metaphor of Metaphysics by Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan: I did not know that McLuhan sort of talked about this about spirituality, religious practices and technology. This is actually surprisingly similar to what Isabella and I were talking about in the past week. Heidegger always tends to go back to etymology so we were looking at where it actually comes from. There's this idea of carrying a cross, but it used to mean something like transfer of ownership or over a cross and the bear kind of means carry. So there's a sense of transferring something or carrying from one place to another, maybe a cross domain.

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