Circumspection (Umsicht)

is a term refering to how one sees one’s way around things practically, fitting ourselves into the complex ways implements refer to one another for some intermediate purpose.

The most acute manner of merely looking upon the so-and-so constituted appearance of things can not discover what is handy. The view of things, looking-upon [them] only ‘theoretically’, dispenses with the understanding of handiness.” This remark suggests that, in order to transition from seeing implements the way we do in using them to the way we see them apart from that use, we must undergo a Gestalt-shift. We are hardly blind to implements when using them. “Circumspection” refers to how one sees one’s way around things practically, fitting ourselves into the complex ways implements refer to one another for some intermediate purpose (Um-zu) (SZ 69).

circumspection (umsicht), n.Definitions

circumspection (umsicht)