for: Michel Bilbot, transcendental, transcendental - Kant, awakening, non-dual, nondual, nonduality, non-duality, emptiness, epoche, Maurice Merle-Ponty, perspective shift, perspective shift - transcendental

summary

• Michel Bilbot gives an extremely important talk on two related themes
  • Kant's concept of the idea of transcendental
  • Husserl's concept of epoche / phenomenological reduction
    • definition here:
      • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiep.utm.edu%2Fphen-red%2F&group=world
  • comparison of two perspectives of science as
    • panpsychism where atomic theories of materialism are held to be theories of everything
    • Husserl's phenomenology of human experience
• Bilbot points out the situatedness each individual is born into life with. Even acts such as visually seeing reveal our situatedness as a seer with clues such as perspective that reveals structures of the seer such as vanishing point.

adjacency

• between
  • Kant's transcendental
  • Husserl / Maurice Merle-Ponty / Heidegger's phenomenology and epoche / phenomenological reduction methodology
  • eastern mysticism and philosophical ideas:
    • nonduality - dissolution of the self / other dualism
    • awakening
    • enlightenment
    • emptiness
• adjacency statement
  • Michel Bilbot establishes the important foundation of one of Kant's major life works on the transcendental, and how Husserl's phenomenology and related process of the phenomenological reduction (epoche) is critical to understanding Husserl and Kant.
  • He then applies it to an analysis and comparison of science seen from two contrasting perspectives, atomic theories of panpsychism vs phenomenology.
  • Bilbot reveals that Husserl was deeply influenced by Buddhist thought

for: Kant's transcendental - in history, quote, quote - Upanishad, quote - Ernst Cassirer, quote - Michel Henry, quote - Giovanni Gentile, quote Edmund Husserl

paraphrase

• The transcendental cannot be an objective thought but is the condition for any objective thought
• Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
  • Kant's transcendental is equivalent to the Braham
    • it is never seen but is a seer
    • it is never heard but is a hearer
    • it is never thought but is the thinker
    • it is never known but is the knower
    • it is the source of things and the source of knowledge
• Ernst Cassirer
  • Consciousness is a goal to which knowledge turns its back
• Michel Henry Consciousness cannot be shown, for it is the power to show.
• Giovanni Gentile
• Edmund Husserl
  • transcendental turn
    • the world is a sense for the transcendental ego
    • the transcendental ego is presupposed by the senses