The Beginning Philosopher | Husserl | Cartesian Meditations
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- Опубликовано: 13 дек 2022
- Welcome to Back to the Text Themselves,' a series on phenomenology. This video examines sections 1 and 2 in Edmund Husserl's Cartesian Meditations.
In it, I address the following questions
01:04 Why did I choose Husserl's Cartesian Meditations over other possible texts?
04:23 What is it about Descartes' thought that Husserl finds so appealing?
10:49 What is the difference between talking about philosophy and doing philosophy?
This video is both the start of a new set of videos but also a continuation of a series that began with Heidegger's Being & Time. Here is a playlist of those videos:
• Being and Time | Marti...
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Hero, I name thee. i completely agree that most people these days talk about philosophy, rather than doing philosophy. I will have to look up some of your work.
I’m really glad that you’re doing this book! It is foundational for understanding Being and Time and Being and nothingness since they both take aim at the Transcendental Ego.
Very generous of you to choose the most verisimilous of paintings of Kant. Very much finding this work useful. Much better than ploughing through a book.
Thanks!
Great, looking forward to this series!
Just watched this again and got even more out of this lecture; I think of this absolute doubt as the movement of the negative. So reminds me of Kant's Category of Quality or Hegel Qualitative Absolute as Interpreted by Heidegger in his Phenomenology of Spirit lectures. Thanks Brian!
Wonderful and thank you again for the tremendous support Bruce. Very grateful for it!
An interesting take, I think on talking about philosophy and doing philosophy is Martin Heidegger’s published lecture ‘Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics’ ; so doing philosophy happens through being gripped or a fundamental attunement.
I like this formulation, that philosophy is something that in a sense happens to you rather than an act of the will, as the expression “doing philosophy” might imply. I think what I got from Husserl in this part is more so what philosophy is not rather than a clear indication of what it is or how it is.
let’s gooooo
Thank you for doing this.
Your welcome. And thank you for all the good content you are putting out now on your channel. Its exciting to see!
Is Derrida on the horizon? Reading his work has renewed my interest in Husserl
He is on the horizon but have to first pass through Merleau-Ponty and Levinas on my way there. An early work by Derrida would probably follow Levinas' Totality & Infinity.
Hey. Have you looked at Graham Harmon's book "Tool-being"? If l remember right l recall thinking that this work was more doing than writing about...He was trying to present a new metaphysics in which tool-being is the "in itself" of outer objects. I think he tries to develop a hard realism from Heidegger. I don't remember much else about it. I am glad you are looking at Husserl before Sartre. Be well.
haven’t read it. but it take a look. sounds interesting
on the topic of doing rather than studying philosophy: i would love to take, or even one day lead, a class which approached phenomenology by getting students, rather than writing exegetic papers on husserl or heidegger, to write instead phenomenological accounts of some phenomenon of their choice
i feel like this could be incorporated pretty easily into a standard college class. i would have loved it if the suggested paper titles at the end of my heidegger class had been something like:
(1) describe an encounter with a friend
(2) describe a work of art of your choice
(3) what is it like to be bored?
etc.
rather than e.g.
(1) what does heidegger mean by a world?
(2) what does heidegger think of the correspondence theory of truth?
(3) how does heidegger argue that dasein is essentially being-with?
etc.
something I did in my psychopathology course this past semester is have students think through the phenomenological features of various conditions and based on specific philosophical categories - e.g space, time, body, world, identity, intersubjectivity, etc. The risk with college students is that it becomes a mere experiential exercise of naive reflection. But with some scaffolding along the way, it can be done in a somewhat more rigorous manner
Risk doing philosophy in a video!
It is a temptation I’ve gone back and forth on. Perhaps a new series for the new year? I’ll be considering it at least.
You seem to think of philosophy in a positivist sense, I.e., as thinking that produces knowledge, rather than criticizing or reflecting on what one is doing (talking about it). I don't see how these can be separated, especially for someone like Husserl.
I don’t see how either.
that's a crazy thumbnail
nothing says radical self-reflexivity like smoking your own nose
@@SingularityasSublimity I hope nobody takes it as being antisemitic, given that Husserl was Jewish
@@kuningas1101 if one were to make that leap I would hope they would reflect on their own biases that would lead them to jump to such a conclusion.
Why should husserl be a heresy ?
Husserl himself is not the heresy. Rather, it is the subsequent philosophical discourse that diverges from his original ideas. Ricœur's claim here is that while Husserl laid the groundwork for phenomenology, the subsequent interpretations and adaptations of his work often involve fundamental disagreements with key aspects if his thought , such as the concept of the transcendental subject and the method of reduction.
@@SingularityasSublimity alright ! thank you for the answer and for your work
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