PHIL 375 Lecture Notes - Jean-Paul Sartre, Edmund Husserl, Subjective Idealism
22 Dec 2012
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Considers the essence of a phenomenon; the essence is a series of phenomenons that appears in the object. This is husserl"s position; sartre endorses it, but also finds it problematic, insofar as it endorses another dualism between the finite and the infinite. This dualism was favoured by husserl because it affirms transphenomenal (an object in this view does not have to have a finite views. ) However, the phenomenon is not like its essence, and sartre doesn"t think the being of an object is being apprehended based on this principle. Leans more towards a heideggerian notion of a grounding being in an object itself. The being of an object is more than its appearance, for sartre. It also has an element of secretiveness, of covering up. Being is revealed to a subject, but not revealed in its entirety. An apple is transphenomenal, it is not reducible to an abstract concept, but rather is a fact, a phenomenological fact.
