Husserl on Passive Synthesis

James lists four qualifiers of mystical experiences: ineffability (a state that defies description), noetic quality (revelations of universal and eternal truths), transiency (a brief but profoundly important experience) and passivity (a feeling of being taken over by a superior authority).

According to Academic Skepticism theres a flaw in our very basic sense of understanding and observing the univere.They said that our senses of vision ,touch cannot be trusted completely .For eg if we are hearing to a voice (familiar)are we sure that its of friend ,it is possible that he

Indirect realists often ask us to consider hallucination and perceptual illusions. In hallucinations, you see something, but nothing which exists. In illusions, you see something, but not as it really is e.g. a straight stick in water appears bent. In each case, what you see, they claim, is a mental thing, an appearance, a ‘sense-datum’. We can then say that what we perceive ‘immediately’ is the appearance, which has secondary qualities; and that it is by enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk © Michael Lacewing perceiving the appearance that we perceive the physical object, which has only primary qualities. So we see the appearance of the vase, which is a mental thing which really is red; and this way, we indirectly see the vase, which is a physical

For someone to be transcendental they have to follow a certain set of beliefs and understand what

Through the course of this paper, I began to wonder if it was even worth finishing. Thoughts rushed through my head on whether this Word document I was typing on even really existed. My reality as I presumed it to be may actually be thoughts in my head, and this philosophy assignment may have just been some weird way my own mind decided to entertain me. Perhaps yet, it may have been the work of a divine mind, taking helm of the way my thoughts flowed. These were all questions that came up as I read through George Berkeley 's, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. For in his manuscript, he addresses skepticism about the physical world, that is the ambiguity humans have in how a physical world outside of our minds is like. Berkeley has a simple solution to this. Through his interpretations of ideas, Berkeley comes to the conclusion that there should not be any skepticism surrounding the physical world because the physical world simply does not exist.

ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to defend a broad concept of visual perception, according to which it is a sufficient condition for visual perception that subjects receive visual information in a way which enables them to give reliably correct answers about the objects presented to them. According to this view, blindsight, non-epistemic seeing, and conscious visual experience count as proper types of visual perception. This leads to two consequences concerning the role of the phenomenal qualities of visual experiences. First, phenomenal qualities are not necessary in order to see something, because in the case of blindsight, subjects can see objects without experiences phenomenal

There remains doubt in how much the human mind really knows; what is known and how the mind is capable of knowing it. In philosophical skepticism, it is asserted that we know little to nothing about the world external of our senses. Anything claimed to be knowledge retains the possibility of doubt, even that which is used as justification for obtaining that piece (or pieces) of knowledge. There is a problem that arises when considering the external world, which is of obtaining and being able to offer sufficient justification for “commonsense” belief.

The textbook deliberates in text, the depth of Gestalts theory, touching ground on the meaningfulness of perception, principle of organization and conscious awareness. Likewise, the article discusses these ideas and links them to evolutionary biology and cultural psychology. The article linked Haidts ideas to align Gestalts principle of awareness as well as the use of its senses (Carley, 2014, p. 81). On the bases of similarity, both resources guide its readers to the idea that perception and insight occurs only through conscious awareness. Both resources suggest that awareness can be improved upon by practice or

Descartes’ skeptical scenario is a view of radical skepticism which challenges the common-sense view of knowledge. In this essay, I will demonstrate that the possibility of Descartes’ skeptical scenario shows that knowledge of the external world is impossible. This will be done by examining the dreaming argument. Subsequently, I will present responses to the critiques of the dreaming argument via the analysis of the arguments of a deceiving God and an evil demon. The idea of his writings in Meditation I is to show that there are doubts about knowledge.

This paper will address the problem of skepticism. My focus will be exclusively on Global Skepticism as it is more controversial than Local Skepticism. The stance I am seeking to persuade you to take is one regarding the question of whether or not Global Skepticism is justified. In this paper I will discuss and analyze what other philosophers have said about the topic, my argument, how my opponents might object to my arguments, and how I respond to those objections. My hope is the conclusion to my argument will convince you that Global Skepticism is not justified and we can, in fact, come to ‘know’ things about our reality and obtain knowledge.

While I agree with Anselm’s position regarding the validity of a supreme being as God; however, I can’t stop pondering that maybe our expectation in understanding the existence of God is probably something far from our ability to understand. Is it just possible that God is something some has the ability to feel his presence but not necessarily can be

In this essay, he linked the concept of thingness with nearness and describing that how a thing is related to its already existing conditions of fourfold. This essay is somehow different for people who got modern western education because the writer has used a strange technique that anyone who reads the text feels as if that the writer is his philosophical guide.

--Space becomes isotropic, rectilinear, abstract, and uniform. With the visual pyramid between view and the painting then another between the painting and the vanishing point, the object of study and the viewer are subjected to Cartesian persepectivialism.

Arguing systematically he takes the reader through all the senses in question; namely, hearing, smell, touch and taste. For each sense he quotes an example from nature, thus describing how it is an acknowledgement of all senses that completes a space. He talks of registering the speed of wind through hearing and detecting the temperature of the same through touch.

Husserl calls the given in its immediate disclosure the "phenomenon". Derived from the Greek verb "phainomaf', it means to show visibility or to become visible. Phenomenon therefore suggests that which is disclosed, is shown, which is evident. The term Phenomenology was derived from this concept. Philosophy must broach the given or variable in its reality by means of Phenomenology.