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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Do we need human?

http://www.npr.org/2013/02/25/172900833/do-we-need-humans

Friday, March 8, 2013

Husserl and Space


A quote I found on a phenomenology blog.  I need to follow up and read "Ding und Raum":

"...the constitution of space presupposes the constitution of one's own body: "Ding und Raum", where Husserl provides us with a phenomenological explanation of space constitution, does not give evidence for the process of one's own body constitution. The only passage in which Husserl speaks about the constitution of the body is notoriously to be found in "Ideas II". The touching-touched hand explains how my body can constitute itself contemporaneously as a Leib and as a Körper. It is important to stress this fact: the body can be constituted only insofar as it is apprehend both as my body (Leib), experienced subjectively, and as a thing (Körper) among other things in an objective space. 

So, you see that a circle seems to threaten Husserl's phenomenology of space:
- space is constituted through body's experience;
- the constitution of one's own body presupposes the constitution of space."