and one other

If I’m not careful I’ll end up quoting the whole thing, which is not allowed, but maybe one more passage will convince you to look up the whole interview:

“Lingis: There are imperatives in things. To see things is to see how we have to stand and to approach them, and to see what they require to subsist. It is to see how they have to be preserved, protected, repaired, or restored. Even to make a meal is to see how foodstuffs have to be preserved, prepared, and cooked. Even to move on the earth and in the light is to see how we have to move. The objectives of our real actions are not simply posited by a fiat of our free will or by our arbitrary imagination. The layout about us may offer a number of possible objectives, which we may or may not pursue. And of course we may long for and imagine other layouts where other objectives would be possible.”