Tag: husserl
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Exploring Bergson’s Concept of Intuition: A Phenomenological Critique
1. Introduction This essay aims to explore Bergson’s concept of intuition in Time and Free Will, and compare it with ideas in phenomenology, particularly in Husserl and Heidegger. Section 2 provides the context for our exploration by discussing Bergson’s concept of consciousness as ‘duration’ (la durée), which is grasped by intuition, and section 3 delves…
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How Can the Concept of Embodiment and Intersubjectivity Be Understood in Sartre and Merleau-Ponty?
Introduction In the Göttingen lectures of 1907, particularly Ding und Raum (Thing and Space), Edmund Husserl delved into the relationship between the lived body and the phenomena of space and time as they are experienced, in conjunction with related discussions on sensuous perception, memory, fantasy and time consciousness, which pioneered a phenomenological tradition that went…
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Yes or No: Is There an External World?
As the title suggests, as of recent, I was pressured into giving a categorical answer to what I deem to be a false dichotomy, for reasons that I shall elaborate later. The question was raised by an acquaintance who grew frustrated with my responses when there was an exchange of metaphysical views between us, which…
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