I must achieve internal consistency.
Edmund HusserlRead
To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
Interpretation
Pure phenomenology studies the experiences of consciousness without any preconceived notions.
Edmund Husserl's quote suggests that pure phenomenology is focused on understanding the structure and nature of consciousness itself. This discipline seeks to analyze experiences as they are perceived, free from assumptions or external interpretations, emphasizing the importance of subjective experience in the study of human consciousness.
In practice
In a lecture on the nature of consciousness, one might say, 'As Husserl stated, pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.'
I must achieve internal consistency.
I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.
Experience by itself is not science.
To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.
An agnostic position is one that leaves open the question whether there exists a god or gods, professing to find such a question unanswered or unanswerable. For the atheist, the question has been answered, and in the negative.
What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter; now it was bursting into more complex developments, becoming, one might say, a book - perhaps an encylopaedia - even a whole language.
The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves again in the spring.
Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we understand is its prayer to the Great Spirit, for not only men, but all things and all beings pray to Him continually in differing ways.
I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten because that history has yet to be enacted.
It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
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