Single Idea 21228

[catalogued under 15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 4. Other Minds / c. Knowing other minds]

Full Idea

For Husserl monads have windows because they communicate with each other. The windows of the monads are the acts of empathy.

Gist of Idea

Husserl's monads (egos) communicate, through acts of empathy.

Source

report of Edmund Husserl (Cartesian Meditations [1931]) by Victor Velarde-Mayol - On Husserl 4.7.5

Book Reference

Velarde-Mayol,Victor: 'On Husserl' [Wadsworth 2000], p.79


A Reaction

Leibniz said his monads (which include minds) have 'no windows'. The mere existence of empathy (or mirror neurons, as we would say) is hardly sufficient to defeat solipsism.

Related Idea

Idea 21226 Husserl sees the ego as a monad, unifying presence, sense and intentional acts [Husserl, by Velarde-Mayol]