I have come to associate many of my thoughts on the concept of "that which is beyond oneself and conditions oneself." This is a kind of way of talking about infinity, I think, from the perspective of one that is finite (from one having perspective).
I tend to think of this in terms of my mathematical philosophy - that the reality of mathematics is woven into the being-conditioned-from-beyond-ness of the mind. In a sense, mathematics are discovered because they are part of the real world, but they are dependent on the mind, involves the imagination, though not itself "imagined."
My thoughts on epistemology often uses this theme. For instance, my critique of foundationalism is that epistemic foundations - their correspondance with reality and their meaning - would have to depend on reality that is beyond the frame of reference they depend on (or are conditioned by). This dependence defeats the reliance on such foundations' epistemic integrity.
Once I presented some basics of Derrida's deconstruction approach - but I translated his thinking in terms of "that which is beyond oneself and conditions oneself." The consumation of meaning cannot be arrived at because it is conditioned by that which is beyond the moment, the perspective, and the self.
And of course in my religious thinking: "that which is beyond the self and conditions the self" may refer to the Infinite - or GOD.
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