PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4, 5: Impermanence, Anatta, Umwelt
8 Dec 2015
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Chapter thirteen: experience, existence, and the meaning of. The purpose of existential philosophy was to regain contact with the basic experiences of being alive and aware. Existential analysis begins with the concrete and specific experience of a human being existing at a particular moment in time and space. Ludwig binswanger if you look deeply into your own mind, you will find that the conscious experience of being alive has three components. Biological experience umwelt consists of the sensations you feel by virtue of being a biological organism: this includes pleasure, pain, heat, cold, and all the bodily. Social experience mitwelt consists of what you think and feel as sensations a social being: your emotions and thoughts about other people and the emotions and thoughts direct at you. Inner, psychological experience eigenwelt this is the experience of experience itself: consists of how you feel and think when you try to understand, includes introspection yourself, your own mind, and your own existence.
