PHIL 373 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Object Relations Theory
16 Nov 2016
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Not about being lecture series for the public: instead the encompassing. What is the lived experience of a human being. What is philosophy itself: how it is related to science. Before people thought philosophy should be made into a science: positivism. Not at odds with science but a division of labour. Science reveals the way things are: works within certain limits. We face a choice of either resignation or a leap of faith towards transcendence. There is more to reality than what can be known in scientific terms: what science knows it knows with accuracy, but it can"t know everything. Philosophy"s task is to fill in the gaps that science leaves. Positivism was logical but is not relevant to human existence. Science cannot create a doctrine that applies to all being. The encompassing: is not a set of objects, the realm in which we encounter what being is for us.
