A-Project-ivity • gary e. davis • berkeley


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	A-Project-ivity gary e. davis	February 2019 / December 2023

Life can be full of projects.

A child does well to love extended play as constructively responding to the appeal of some imagined waystation.

Excellence in a schoolroom is hallmarked by project-oriented learning that instills love of extended inquirial engagement.

As one grows up, more-ambitious projects may become entwined with selfiden-
tity. There are dreams of “who I want to be when I grow up.”

There emerge teen ideals of grand project-ivity that evince aspirations for one’s “personal best.”

Fidelity to high individuation and healthy aging are certainly appealing import-
ances. At best, reason to live is born from appellant inspiration.

A “Purpose in life” feels to embrace the horizon of one’s Time, and such sense of Purpose might well be conceived as the Project-ivity of one’s life, in light of which—and relative to which—eras of a life have their prevailing project-ivities (aspirations, ideals, career, etc.), and large-scale projects are served by mediate projects, served by activities served by goal-directed enaction. That Project-ivity is the foremost orientation of one’s sense of project-ivity.

I symbolize a lifetime-oriented sense of Purpose, served by mediate project-ivity, by a neologism, ‘A-Project-ivity’: a sense of life-prevailing orientation of one’s years, thus months and days; prevailing care for how and where one’s life is going.

Thriving Selfness is drawn into its horizons of potential, promise, prospective-ness, and possibility. A-Project-ive Selfworlding flourishes. Selfness is ideally mirrored by its horizonal Purposefulness, which is, at best, manifoldly project-ive.

Telic cohering of project-ive desire mirrors a fullness of Self in Time. A life-span envisioned project-ivity (e.g., career that would “change the world”) ventures a comprehensive telic cohering of one’s life.

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