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Single Idea 22212
[filed under theme 15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / b. Essence of consciousness
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Full Idea
Consciousness, considered in its 'purity', must be reckoned as a self-contained system of Being, a system of actual Being, into which nothing can penetrate, and from which nothing can escape.
Gist of Idea
Pure consciousness is a sealed off system of actual Being
Source
Edmund Husserl (Ideas: intro to pure phenomenology [1913], II.3.049)
Book Ref
Husserl,Edmund: 'Ideas: general introduction to pure phenomenology', ed/tr. Boyce Gibson,W [Routledge 2012], p.95
A Reaction
Recorded without comment, to show that among phenomenologists there is a way of thinking about consciousness which is a long way from analytic discussions of the topic.
The
26 ideas
from 'Ideas: intro to pure phenomenology'
22218
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There can only be a science of fluctuating consciousness if it focuses on stable essences
[Husserl, by Bernet]
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22217
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Phenomenology aims to validate objects, on the basis of intentional intuitive experience
[Husserl, by Bernet]
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22219
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Husserl saw transcendental phenomenology as idealist, in its construction of objects
[Husserl, by Bernet]
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22216
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Phenomenology studies different types of correlation between consciousness and its objects
[Husserl, by Bernet]
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19263
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Imagine an object's properties varying; the ones that won't vary are the essential ones
[Husserl, by Vaidya]
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22220
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The phenomena of memory are given in the present, but as being past
[Husserl, by Bernet]
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22221
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We know another's mind via bodily expression, while also knowing it is inaccessible
[Husserl, by Bernet]
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22201
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The use of mathematical-style definitions in philosophy is fruitless and harmful
[Husserl]
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22202
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The World is all experiencable objects
[Husserl]
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21218
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The sense of anything contingent has a purely apprehensible essence or Eidos
[Husserl]
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22203
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Only facts follow from facts
[Husserl]
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21221
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Direct 'seeing' by consciousness is the ultimate rational legitimation
[Husserl]
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22204
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Start philosophising with no preconceptions, from the intuitively non-theoretical self-given
[Husserl]
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22205
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Feelings of self-evidence (and necessity) are just the inventions of theory
[Husserl]
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22206
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Natural science has become great by just ignoring ancient scepticism
[Husserl]
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22207
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Epoché or 'bracketing' is refraining from judgement, even when some truths are certain
[Husserl]
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22208
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'Bracketing' means no judgements at all about spatio-temporal existence
[Husserl]
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22210
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After everything is bracketed, consciousness still has a unique being of its own
[Husserl]
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22209
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Our goal is to reveal a new hidden region of Being
[Husserl]
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22211
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As a thing and its perception are separated, two modes of Being emerge
[Husserl]
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21220
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The physical given, unlike the mental given, could be non-existing
[Husserl]
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22212
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Pure consciousness is a sealed off system of actual Being
[Husserl]
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22213
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Absolute reality is an absurdity
[Husserl]
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22214
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We never meet the Ego, as part of experience, or as left over from experience
[Husserl]
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22215
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Phenomenology describes consciousness, in the light of pure experiences
[Husserl]
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21217
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Phenomenology needs absolute reflection, without presuppositions
[Husserl]
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