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    A tool is made to serve a specific function. That's its essential feature. - There is no need to blow-up mundane facts in the context of a "Theory of Religion". Commented Jan 29 at 4:21
  • For Bataille a tool is not just something that does work. It is something whose being is defined by not being for itself, wherefore projective linear temporality as a deferred and accumulative ontic form is the deeper structure while utility is its social economic expression. Because most art objects still get reabsorbed into utility, art only imperfectly escapes tool-y ready-to-hand-ness, perhaps only monetarily in the rupture with wasteful excess and self-undermining... Commented 2 days ago
  • @JoWehler I think you might want to reconsider the claim the essence of 'tool' reduces to a such a simple phrase: philosophy.stackexchange.com/a/135737/40730 Commented 2 days ago
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    I would also be interested in "What makes someone a tool" but that might be better for the interpersonal interaction stack. Commented 2 days ago
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    @DanielB it also crossed my mind ;) Commented 2 days ago