• for: transcendent, transcendental, definition - transcendental, Kant - transcendental, phenomenology

• definition: transcendental

  • not what is BEYOND appearances (the usual colloquial meaning of transcend) but what is BELOW appearances
  • in other words, it is the condition of possibilities of these appearances, it is from where appearances appear

• perspective shift: transcendental

  • Until encountering this explanation, I battled with and puzzled over the explanation of the transcendental given by all other authors. I found them overly complex and unintelligible without understanding many other major hidden assumptions
  • In my view, this proves Bilbot's mastery as a an educator on the most profound ideas in philosophy
    • Above all, he has a deep understanding of the salience landscape of his audience, something which almost all other author's and educators miss

• 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

• for: experience replaces objects, nondual replaces dual, Heidegger, situatedness

• comment

  • there is a parallel between objective reality and the private experience
    • visual field
      • vanishing point indicates presence of the seer
    • interior, first person experience
      • situatedness indicates presence of experience being had from somewhere (specific) - situatedness

• definition start

  • this is called by Heidegger and Husserl the transcendental deduction
• definition end

• for: nondual, nonduality, ground of existence, transcendental, Kant - transcendental, non-duality, non-dual, quote, quote - Michel Bitbol, quote - nonduality, quote - transcendental

• quote

  • What can you say about the transcendental?
  • Can you speak of it?
  • Can you use words to describe it?
  • Can you characterize the condition of possibility of it?
  • And Kant says no.
  • This, namely, the transcendental, cannot be further analyzed or answered because it is of such condition that we are in need for all our answers and for all our thinking about objects.
  • So, the transcendental itself cannot be an object of thought.
• author: Michel Bitbol
• comment
  • Michel Bitbol explains Kant's definition of transcendental that makes sense to me for the first time!
  • It is really quite similiar to the defintion of the nondual.

Boon, Mieke. ‘The Role of Disciplinary Perspectives in an Epistemology of Scientific Models’. Preprint, June 2020. http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/17272/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter.

A short, and very cogent argument here.