Hmm, interesting - I hadn't made the connection between figuration and the journey/destination thing, but that certainly does seem fruitful to contemplate.
I'm about 1/3 into volume I of Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler, so my thoughts are likely shaped by that, but it seems there might be a Faustian rationale for the connection here. Faustian thought is ever-focused on the far-away, ultimate end (not just a destination, but THE destination), everything in between is just "space". The link I see with your comment about figuration is that I imagine the Faustian mind is especially prone to blow right past noticing the figuration phase in pursuit of the "destination" of comprehensible items in space ready to be put to whatever use will serve your aims.
Not fully baked yet, of course, it just came to me, but thank you for pointing me down a new avenue for exploring the journey/destination problem.
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I'm about 1/3 into volume I of Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler, so my thoughts are likely shaped by that, but it seems there might be a Faustian rationale for the connection here. Faustian thought is ever-focused on the far-away, ultimate end (not just a destination, but THE destination), everything in between is just "space". The link I see with your comment about figuration is that I imagine the Faustian mind is especially prone to blow right past noticing the figuration phase in pursuit of the "destination" of comprehensible items in space ready to be put to whatever use will serve your aims.
Not fully baked yet, of course, it just came to me, but thank you for pointing me down a new avenue for exploring the journey/destination problem.