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The impossible Derrida

Thoughts: Thoughts are the most powerful think that every person has. In our minds we can do anything we wish very good or very evil. So we think more than we speak and we write, and definitely we think before we do any speaking or writing, so thoughts must have more power to us than speech and writing? Are our thoughts pure? If everything else isn’t how can they be? How can our speech be pure or our writings?

Language: No one speaks their own language perfectly. But does this mean that our language doesn’t belong to us? To each one who has a mother tongue? Does the language any language belong to someone – anyone? Who can claim a language?

Difference: Difference is what matters and what makes thinks and people have a value. You have a difference with someone and that immediately gives you an identity. Do we really need an identity? Do we need to have this relationship based on difference in order to exist as different personalities? Without having the opposite you cannot speak about the value of something. If for example you don’t have the ugly how can you evaluate the beautiful? Even if what we assume to be ugly isn’t what we can call pure ugly. Even if what we assume to be beautiful isn’t pure beautiful, isn’t the difference the one that gives value?

The impossible pure: Nothing is perfect, so there is not any pure ideal. Everything is contaminated and pure is impossible to be achieved. Doesn’t exist. What are people looking for then? What are they expecting? How can we accomplish something? Don’t we have to have something ideal in our minds? Even if it is imaginary. Why even try to accomplish something? Is hope an impossible ideal? If everything pure is impossible, then what is possible? What is true what is pure? Who says is the one and not the other? Why not the best possible something be our ideal one? The pure. According to Derrida the best possible is recognizing the impossibility of the ideal one. How then we can approach something, have a hope. Try about something that matters. Then everything is hopeless. Pure forgiveness, justice, hospitality all impossible. If nothing is pure, so why everybody tries to become or to achieve something that doesn’t exist. Maybe people try, because something that does not exist if in any way can be succeeded it is certain that is going to be different and because of that will be able to provide an identity.

Derrida’s impossible possibility: “I cannot make a determinate, determining judgment, and say: ‘this is pure forgiveness’, or ‘this is pure hospitality’, as an act of knowledge, there is no adequate act of determining judgment… but it may happen without even my knowing it, my being conscious of it, or my having rules for its establishment.” (Derrida 200 1B, 101-2) How something that is impossible can be possible. And if the impossible becomes possible, does it count if we don’t know about it, if it happens and we don’t understand it? How it can have any value if when it happens we don’t understand it and we don’t understand its difference from the impure the non ideal?

Purity: Can we have any kind of purity? Since perfectability is always in a state of ‘infinite progress’, why not purity be always in a state of ‘infinite progress’ as well? And if we don’t have a pure ideal and we don’t know what it is how are we going to recognize it? With what we compare what exists and say that it is not pure if the pure and true is impossible. What we have in the side of pure and we say that in the other side is the an- pure.