Loved Chris' comments about wood. I worked for many years in various capacities for timber (lumber) companies. I met a few fellows who had become skilled over time in fashioning cedar and hardwood into Victorian and Edwardian moldings. They were modern-day artisans.
Crawford's book, The World Beyond Your Head, is terrific. Many implications for healthy living. Even though it is not a "Christian" book, there are terrific insights for Christian growth. I found it very helpful for my ministry of discipleship to men.
Michael Crawford has been influenced by Heidegger's embodied and embedded philosophy of personhood. The idea of 'working with your hands' violates this idea of the embodied mind, which is a legacy of Platonism. It suggests that humans are at their best when they operate with abstract thought, not craft skills. In contrast, Christianity promotes and celebrates the mind as embodied and embedded. This is one reason why Wittgenstein described his thinking as 100% Hebraic. Hubert Dreyfus, following Heidegger, has written on embodiment and agency, which he describes as 'skilful coping'. This description of agency subverts body/mind dualisms on which 'working with your hands' depends.
Loved Chris' comments about wood. I worked for many years in various capacities for timber (lumber) companies. I met a few fellows who had become skilled over time in fashioning cedar and hardwood into Victorian and Edwardian moldings. They were modern-day artisans.
Crawford's book, The World Beyond Your Head, is terrific. Many implications for healthy living. Even though it is not a "Christian" book, there are terrific insights for Christian growth. I found it very helpful for my ministry of discipleship to men.
Michael Crawford has been influenced by Heidegger's embodied and embedded philosophy of personhood. The idea of 'working with your hands' violates this idea of the embodied mind, which is a legacy of Platonism. It suggests that humans are at their best when they operate with abstract thought, not craft skills. In contrast, Christianity promotes and celebrates the mind as embodied and embedded. This is one reason why Wittgenstein described his thinking as 100% Hebraic. Hubert Dreyfus, following Heidegger, has written on embodiment and agency, which he describes as 'skilful coping'. This description of agency subverts body/mind dualisms on which 'working with your hands' depends.