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Single Idea 7113
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 2. Phenomenology
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Full Idea
The essential principle of phenomenology is that 'all consciousness is consciousness of something'.
Gist of Idea
Phenomenology assumes that all consciousness is of something
Source
Jean-Paul Sartre (Transcendence of the Ego [1937], I (B))
Book Ref
Sartre,Jean-Paul: 'The Transcendence of the Ego' [Routledge 2004], p.10
A Reaction
This idea is found well before Husserl, in Schopenhauer (Idea 4166). It seems to contradict a thought such as Locke's (Idea 1202), that self-awareness is a separate and distinct criterion for personal identity. Sartre gives a nice account.
Related Ideas
Idea 4166
A consciousness without an object is no consciousness [Schopenhauer]
Idea 1202
A person is intelligent, rational, self-aware, continuous, conscious [Locke]
The
23 ideas
with the same theme
[approaching wisdom by examining human experience]:
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Phenomenology studies different types of correlation between consciousness and its objects
[Husserl, by Bernet]
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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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22204
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Start philosophising with no preconceptions, from the intuitively non-theoretical self-given
[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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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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15570
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Phenomenology is the science of essences - necessary universal structures for art, representation etc.
[Husserl, by Polt]
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7614
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Bracketing subtracts entailments about external reality from beliefs
[Husserl, by Putnam]
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6893
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Phenomenology aims to describe experience directly, rather than by its origins or causes
[Husserl, by Mautner]
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3348
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If phenomenology is deprived of the synthetic a priori, it is reduced to literature
[Benardete,JA on Husserl]
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22223
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Being-in-the-world is projection to possibilities, thrownness among them, and fallenness within them
[Heidegger, by Caputo]
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22158
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Pheomenology seeks things themselves, without empty theories, problems and concepts
[Heidegger]
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7113
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Phenomenology assumes that all consciousness is of something
[Sartre]
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8247
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Phenomenology needs art as logic needs science
[Deleuze/Guattari]
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20448
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Phenomenology uncovers and redescribes the pre-theoretical layer of life
[Critchley]
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6846
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Phenomenology is a technique of redescription which clarifies our social world
[Critchley]
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20744
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Phenomenologists say all experience is about something and is directed
[Aho]
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21237
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Phenomenology begins from the immediate, rather than from axioms and theories
[Bakewell]
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21238
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Later phenomenologists tried hard to incorporate social relationships
[Bakewell]
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