The Beginning Philosopher | Husserl | Cartesian Meditations

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Жыл бұрын

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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@stephenanastasi748 Жыл бұрын

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.

@davidtanphilosophy Жыл бұрын

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.

@stephenanastasi748 Жыл бұрын

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.

@OdoItal Жыл бұрын

Great, looking forward to this series!

@theory_underground Жыл бұрын

Thank you for doing this.

@SingularityasSublimity Жыл бұрын

Your welcome. And thank you for all the good content you are putting out now on your channel. Its exciting to see!

@jedemiahs 4 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@brucecmoore2881 Жыл бұрын

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.

@SingularityasSublimity Жыл бұрын

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.

@brucecmoore2881 Жыл бұрын

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!

@SingularityasSublimity Жыл бұрын

Wonderful and thank you again for the tremendous support Bruce. Very grateful for it!

@OH-pc5jx 10 ай бұрын

Is Derrida on the horizon? Reading his work has renewed my interest in Husserl

@SingularityasSublimity 10 ай бұрын

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.

@OH-pc5jx Жыл бұрын

let’s gooooo

@peterblair1759 Жыл бұрын

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.

@SingularityasSublimity Жыл бұрын

haven’t read it. but it take a look. sounds interesting

@OH-pc5jx Жыл бұрын

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

@OH-pc5jx Жыл бұрын

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.

@SingularityasSublimity Жыл бұрын

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

@leehayes4019 Жыл бұрын

Risk doing philosophy in a video!

@SingularityasSublimity Жыл бұрын

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.

@timadamson3378 4 ай бұрын

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.

@SingularityasSublimity 4 ай бұрын

I don’t see how either.

@kuningas1101 Жыл бұрын

that's a crazy thumbnail

@SingularityasSublimity Жыл бұрын

nothing says radical self-reflexivity like smoking your own nose

@kuningas1101 Жыл бұрын

@@SingularityasSublimity I hope nobody takes it as being antisemitic, given that Husserl was Jewish

@SingularityasSublimity Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@NoReprensentationWithoutTax 2 ай бұрын

Why should husserl be a heresy ?

@SingularityasSublimity 2 ай бұрын

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.

@NoReprensentationWithoutTax 2 ай бұрын

@@SingularityasSublimity alright ! thank you for the answer and for your work

@brucecmoore2881 Жыл бұрын

Thanks!