SLSL "TSR" ...deliver us from nada

[William Zantzinger]

--- Mutualcode at aol.com wrote:
> 
> Figuratively speaking, we are all at the center of
> our own pov. And, inspite of the powerful technology
that our objective consideration of the world has
given us, the view has come with an obvious price; one
which was not necessarily realized before the advent
of thermodynamics, Maxwell, Heisenberg, etc.



Oh, it is a view that has come and gone. It's not
surprizing that today we should think of it in term of
scientific influence points of view. Poor philosophy
is dead. But it returns like some Freudian repressed
infinitely feeble thing (the "poor cripple" GR). 



We find in texts only what we put into them, and if
ever any kind of history has suggested the
interpretations which should be put on it, it is the
history of philosophy. We shall find in ourselves, and
nowhere else, the unity and true meaning of
phenomneology. It is less a question of counting up
quotations than of determining and expressing in
concrete form this phenomenology of ourselves which
has given a number of present-day readers the
impression, on reading Husserl or Heidegger, not so
much of encountering a new philosophy as of
recognizing what they had been waiting for. 

	--Merleau-Ponty

The primacy of the individual and his/her EYE in the
20th century. We find the true meaning of
phenomenology not in what H&H have said, but in
OURSELVES. William James bases his entire philosophy
on this principle-each  observer gains a superior
insight but from a peculiar and individual position.
It's very Greek. Like, Xenophanes.  




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