Ideas I The Phenomenological Reductions

In this video, Professor Thorsby discusses Edmund Husserl's evaluation of phenomenological reduction, what is does and does not extend to.

[@KeithBrown23]

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[@cesarc9594]

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[@Wingedmagician]

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[@ulol95]

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[@geoycs]

This is so impressive! However, I always get stuck when trying to do any type of phenomenological reduction! How can I bracket everything like value judgements, historical situatedness, culture, even scientific explanations of what a thing is, and somehow hope to find what a thing’s “essence” is, merely by reflecting on how a thing appears to me in consciousness? I’ve tried to understand this, but it’s never clear how to do this.

[@luukblum4270]

You can't, and the assumption that we are able to 'exclude' or 'parenthesize' withtout a critical consideration of the process of exclusion and our limits doing exclusion invalidates the supposed essences found. Is our conciousness and ego pure or is it shaped by our socialization in the world? Example: As an activist and researcher(lifeworld phenomenology + participatory action research) one narative which consistently came back in interviews / observations / movies / books is the discussion about unconcious racist and sexist behavior in relation to how people have been socialized their entire life. Within that example it seems arrogant indeed to say, I'm able to exclude these socializations in my ego, when the overwhelming consensus within the field you're researching says that's not possible. (Which would explain why the actual process of exclusion is not talked about, but rather as an act which magically happens) Think also about the conditions that frame research - e.g. a transcedental phenomenologists getting a grand to research a specific topic (the government or private institution decides what research gets money), which makes which essence is found undeniably contingent on the issuer of the grand. And the list goes on. TLDR: In contrast with reductionist 'pure phenomenology' lifeworld ontology means moving from reduction to complexity. It is synonymous with a pluralism approach meaning that reality is comprehended as complex, expressed by a large number of different qualities that can’t be reduced to each other. This pluralism contrasts with the aim to demonstrate a pure lifeworld in transcendental phenomenology; in order to do this, it has to go beyond the lifeworld and cannot accept that it is also presupposed in the reflection of the lifeworld. Within this research the lifeworld is presupposed on all levels, as a factual ground that cannot be overcome by scientific research, thereby, the lifeworld phenomenology is contrasted with the ontological claims of transcendental phenomenology.

[@samalvarez1875]

It is an action. In the word is the elements and components that can be reduced. As the prior post indicates, you ( I ) can not. This is that posters belief. What you do or do not relates to what you can or not. Before one can understand, one must stand. In a counterintuitive way, the way appears as we endeavor. Seek and you will find. Understanding is not a belief based path. Implicit is the journey, the quest and willingness to question.

[@buteverybodycallsmegiorgio]

What am I missing when I say that this feels profoundly close to Descartes' methodology of destructive doubt?

[@kqp1998gyy]

Thank you mark

[@user-ig3el1qo9x]

Sir thank you sir

[@anonymoushuman8344]

Wake up and smell the Husserl!

[@adocentyn9028]

Interesting

[@DarrenMcStravick]

I wish Husserl never took the transcendental turn to subjectivism 😔 #realistphenomenology4life #munichcircle