Situation

A situation is what orientation copes with. The terms ‘situation’ and ‘orientation’ are correlates. However, orientation itself draws the distinction between itself and the respective situation trying to differentiate this situation. The correlation of orientation and situation is the premise of all further distinctions. It cannot be justified with further reasons because this would again only be possible by means of further distinctions. A situation encompasses all that is given for an orientation; when a new situation emerges, nothing may be excluded as irrelevant. At first, orientation means looking for, discerning, and assessing the relevance of the footholds offered in a situation. A situation is always singular and individual. Dealing with the surprises and contingencies of a situation, orientation involuntarily decides on what is relevant or with which it can make something.

A situation is generally not limited, neither in space nor in time. The present consists of relevant matters from the past for the future. But orientation limits the situation which it is to explore and widens it as needed at a time.

Orientation already changes the situation by exploring and mastering it. Thus, orientation always renews the need for orientation. It continuously renews itself by continuously making recourse to its own results from orientations in former situations (chap 3.1).

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Glossary

Reinhard Mueller