Edmund Husserl's Phenomenology Lecture: Ideas 1/3 General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology

Lectures on First Section: Nature and Knowledge of Essential Being
Second Section: Fundamental Phenomenological Outlook of Husserl's book Ideas by Chad A. Haag of Chad African Philosophy channel.

[gweiloxiu]

"Object of perception such as table is transcendent because it exceeds even an infinite number of perspectives on it".

This is beautifully said.

The concept reminds me of emergentism.

Here are some other things it reminds me of...


"The form of representation peculiar to the unconscious is not that of the conscious mind. It neither attempts or is able to sieze hold of and define it's objects in a series of discursive explanations, and reduce them to clarity by logical analysis. The way of the unconscious is different. Symbols gather round the thing to be explained, understood, interpreted. The act of becoming conscious consists of concentric groupings of symbols around the object, all circumscribing and describing the unknown from many sides...."
-Erich Neumann, The Origins and History of Consciousness

Russels paradox:
"Also known as the Russell-Zermelo paradox, the paradox arises within naïve set theory by considering the set of all sets that are not members of themselves. Such a set appears to be a member of itself if and only if it is not a member of itself. Hence the paradox."
-Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Interesting to note that when Zermelo first discovered this paradox he did not publish it and that Husserl was one of the few people he shared it with.

There is just "experiencing" without diffentiation until the experiencer becomes what is experienced. There is the emergence of "self" as the initial object, from which other objects can differentiate as experienced things.

There is no "unknown" until we realize that we know something. Once "knowing" is a known thing, the unknown expands exponentially from it and we may gaze across it's majestically dark, opaque surface, stretching to the horizon. We may attempt to illuminate it, make it transparent, transcend it. There the adventure begins. That is consciousness.

[tatsumakisempyukaku]

Seems to me that the difficulty in understanding husserl’s work, in part, lies in that he’s highly abstract and that’s tough to follow for the more concrete thinkers out there. As what Plato said of the Barbarians, in the Theatetus, they won’t believe in anything unless they see it with their eyes and hold it in their hands.

[WilliamYangy]

Hi can you share the online ppt/google ?

[KarunMalhotra]

Can you share link to other two video pls? I tried searching but in vain

[HoiSourced]

were you a Husserl scholar during university by any chance?