O n B e i n g G u i d e d
Let us consider the experience of being guided, and ask ourselves: what does this experience consist in when for instance our course is guided?
Imagine the following cases:
You are in a playing field with your eyes bandaged, and someone leads you by the hand, sometimes left, sometimes right; you have constantly to be ready for the tug of his hand, and must also take care not to stumble when he gives an unexpected tug.
Or again: someone leads you by the hand where you are unwilling to go, by force.
Or: you are guided by a partner in a dance; you make yourself as receptive as possible, in order to guess his intention and obey the slightest pressure.
Or: someone takes you for a walk; you are having a conversation; you go wherever he does.
Or: you walk along a field-track, simply following it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein: On Being Guided
from Philosophical Investigations, § 72
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