PHIL 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Existentialism, Bracketing, Intentionality
2 Jan 2019
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Lecture 2: that status of philosophy in france at the time of emergence of existentialism, two schools of thought. Problems: idealism takes the real world and is what you take of it & realism is that yes there are things out there but i do not have access to them. Both are about a bridge of the human mind (consciousness) and the world, how do they correspond: phenomenology = a third way. It could get beyond these problems and how the problems themselves are misunderstood the relation of human consciousness and the real world. Im conscious of the projector rather when youre just seeing the projector what is that : seeing itself is conscious. Involves many steps: phenomenological reduction: husserl"s text (1913, founder of phenomenology, what is he doing, describing experiences from the point of view of the natural standpoint or natural attitude. We get a world that is spatio-temple fact world.
