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.
Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling, and on the empty space within, its use depends. Thus, while the existence of things may be good, it is the non-existence in them that makes them serviceable.
The sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose.
Those who praise victory relish manslaughter. Those who relish manslaughter cannot reach their goals in the world.
Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The principal difference between the husbandryman and the historian is that the former breeds sheep or cows or such and the latter breeds (assumed) facts. The husbandryman uses his skills to enrich the future, the historian uses his to enrich the past. Both are usually up to their ankles in bullshit.
I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.
I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I belong to the whole world. But in my heart, I belong to Christ.
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