when i am about to get in my car and go for a drive i usually don't think of the technical aspects that go along with driving. so i guess when breaking down driving its mostly going to go towards the science idea of this class. when you are driving if you think about how the car is put together, how it goes from point a to b, how the gas you put in the tank makes the car go when you push the gas pedal, that all goes along with science.
there are some parts of driving that can be considered art or craft, i suppose. when i am driving home from lancaster to harrisburg there are moments when i am doing three or four things at one time. if i am sending a text message, smoking a cigarette, changing the cd all at the same time, i am most definately steering the car with my knee. some people could consider this an art, where as some people could just think it is completely stupid. i'm comfortable with doing it because i know i can, due to practice. this is where craft comes into the picture.
although i feel that art, craft and science can fit into this somehow, i am having trouble finding a way for philosophy to come into the picture.
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If you are driving and concentrating on the science portions of driving, what happens a lot of the time is a collision. Why? Because science is about experiment -- repetition enters into the business only in relationship to some constant, the control (which is probably not doing anything for most beginner drivers). But driving to get from one place to another alive and intact demands that one concentrate not on the engine, or the way the car is made, or what kind of fuel is in the car or who efficiently it burns, how beautiful a car is, or any of that -- what is needed is turning, or going straight, at the posted speed limits, or at a rate of speed dictated from conditions on the road at the time one is driving. The best drivers hardly think at all while driving -- their bodies do all the work, not their minds. This is craft -- or possibly art.
Philosophy lies less in the act itself than, like science, in the preparation for the act.
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