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Are there secular philosophers who argue for predetermined and given meaning/value in life and essentialism?
In continental philosophy particularly existentialism, thinkers reject the idea that there are any predetermined or given meanings/values in life, and stresses that we must take up our freedom and ...
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Is Husserl's transcendental ego God?
We will eventually come up against something that cannot be varied
without destroying that object as an instance of its kind. The
implicit claim here is that if it is inconceivable that an object of
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Does Phenomenology Reject The Existence of Mediating Concepts?
I am reading Robert Sokolowski's Introduction to Phenomenology. He makes phenomenology out to be inherently realist: when we intend something, we intend the thing itself (not the "idea" or &...
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What does the "essence of time" mean for Merleau-Ponty?
“it is of the essence of time to be not only actual time, or time
which flows, but also time which is aware of itself … the archetype of
the relationship of self to self”
What does he mean by '...
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