While every moment of human existence silently depends on and expresses these very LSS-the life-ground standpoint adopted in this chapter-philosophy’s discourses make them disappear before our eyes as, to employ an often-used term, the mere “furniture of the world.” Accordingly, a “life-value turn” to connect the regulating agency of human thought to its systemic effects, or alternatives, of world construction is an emergent turn for Western philosophy, which we may derive from its very abdication of it, a mind-world dualism underpins most of its 2500-year development after the Pre-Socratics. Western philosophy’s second-order realm of concepts, principles and arguments are in this way essentially decoupled from the encompassing social and environmental systems that lie presupposed beneath its reflective inquiries. For Western philosophy, “life support systems” (LSS) may be assumed to mean merely emergency medical devices, because there is no category for life’s ecological and social infrastructures in its canon.
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