Heidegger‚ Kant‚ and the Ontological Argument In the introduction to The Basic Problems of Phenomenology‚ Martin Heidegger explains that throughout the history of philosophy‚ there has been many discoveries of the “domains of being” viz.‚ “nature‚ space‚ and soul”.1 Yet‚ none of these discoveries could be understood in a way that explains “their specific being.”2 As an example‚ Heidegger interprets this problem as the reason Plato understood why the soul‚ along with its logos‚ was a different
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The Intentional Fallacy of W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley Annotation Intentions are the primary focus of the Intentional Fallacy‚ delving into the reliability of critiques and how much the critic can disseminate the intention of the works of poets. Innately flawed‚ the intentions of works are stained with history and experience of both the poet and the public‚ where neither can be ignored or excused. Explanations and indications of meaning are sometimes offered‚ however‚ this leaves footnotes
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..................13 CRITIQUE...................................................................................13 CONCLUSION............................................................................14 BIBLIOGRAPHY........................................................................15 INTRODUCTION Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (German: [ˈhʊsɐl]; April 8‚ 1859 – April 27‚ 1938) was a German philosopher who established the school of phenomenology. He broke with the positivist
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The Phenomenological Method Philosophy started among the Greeks who asked practical questions in life such as “how to live?” But then started as well asking impractical questions like “Is it just?” What is just is that which is not only ok with me but with others as well. Here the issue of universality is first raised. “What is justice?” is one of the first philosophical questions of man. The next philosophical question is on truth. What is true is that which is not only valid here and now but
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are so many components involved with one subject. But in reality philosophy is really a broad term for many subtopics; as is the case when discussing continental philosophy‚ which is the philosophical tradition of continental Europe including phenomenology and existentialism. It all began with Absolute Idealism supported by such philosophers as Fichte and Hegel. It was during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that immense amounts of historical changes taking place in the world were showing
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S. (2004). Self-representational approaches to consciousness. Cambridge‚ Massachusetts: MIT Press. Polkinghorne‚ R. (2000). Some guidelines for the phenomenological analysis of interview data. New York: Humanities Press. Smith‚ D. (2005). Phenomenology and philosophy of mind. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Smith‚ P.‚ & Bell‚ A Titscher‚ S.‚ & Jenner‚ B. (Eds.). (2000). Methods of text and discourse analysis: In search of meaning. Sage. Zia‚ A. (2007). Effects of cable television
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An Analysis of Don Ihde’s Phenomenology of Technics in Relation to Man’s Dependence on Computers Summary In this thesis‚ the researcher would like to expound the meaning of our relation to technology as means-ends relationship. Don Ihde’s Phenomenology of Technics (1990) which builds on insight from Heidegger and Meleau-Ponty‚ provides further points of relevance in prefacing a discussion of the dynamics characterizing the navigation of the city. Phenomenology of Ihde has been modified and
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continental England in the 20th century (dictionary.com staff‚ 2012). It contains many theories such as critical theory‚ deconstruction‚ existentialism‚ hermeneutics‚ phenomenology‚ and structuralism (dictionary.com staff‚ 2012). The two schools of thought linked to continental that are the most important are existentailism and phenomenology (Moore & Bruder‚ 2011). The most influencial philosophers related to continental philosophy are Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre (Moore & Bruder‚ 2011)
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GENERAL INTRODUCTION Ours is an anthropocentric world where each individual is went upon attaining self realisation in himself or herself. He or she has scant respect for others. Pragmatism has become the order of the day. In short man has become inordinately selfish‚ considering society a mere means to gratify himself/ herself. This malady of the modern society has been denounced by eminent philosophers like Kant‚ F. H. Bradley etc. Their sole intention was to lay a foundation for ethics. But
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schools of thought: classical phenomenology‚ the phenomenology of perception‚ and hermeneutic phenomenology. Edmund Husserl‚ considered the founder of modern phenomenology‚ held an almost controversial view that instead of seeing things through our own psyches‚ we should take ourselves away from our biases and see things in an objective way in order to be able to interpret the actual experience (Littlejohn & Foss 38). Many scholars disagreed and thus the phenomenology of perception came to be. This
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