By Reinhardt Grossmann
Professor Grossmann believes that for a whole realizing of the existentialists and phenomenologists we should also comprehend the issues that they have been attempting to resolve, difficulties inherited from the philosophical culture. This e-book exhibits essentially how the most issues of phenomenology and existentialism grew out of culture.
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The hallucinatedtree, however, because it doesn't exist, has no propertiesand can't shareproperties with somethingelse. And if it doesn't have any houses, what's thereto examine? What can one possiblydiscoveraboutit? Any severe inquiry, any real research, needs to be concernedwith existentthings; for nonexistentobjectshaveno properties,stand in no family, and consequently don't have anything that may be stumbled on. To this, the phenomenologistcould answer that we're easily mistaken:nonexistentobjectshavepropertiesand relationsjust like existents. The hallucinatedbirch tree is a tree, it has leavesof a undeniable form, the leaves are eco-friendly, and so forth. Hamlet, to take anotherexample,was a prince of Denmarkand he's indecisive. Phenomenologystudiesthe propertiesof nonexistentobjectsin the sameway during which sciencestudiesthe propertiesof existent a hundred and forty The phenomenologicalmethod gadgets. therefore there's a 'science'of objectsin general,irrespective in their existentialstatus,and this 'science'is Phenomenology. i'm really not confident. What, precisely,are thesepropertiesand relationswhich nonexistentobjectsare supposedto have? The hallucinated birch tree is supposedly a tree, and it has supposedlygreenleaves(we shall assume). yet why is it no longer a birch tree whoseleaveshavecomedown, a birch tree in wintry weather? good, the answeris visible: becauseit is hallucinatedin this manner and never as a baretree. yet what aboutother houses? How tall used to be the tree final yr? used to be it planted? if this is the case, through whom? and so forth. those questionsmake sensewhen we ask them abouta genuine tree, yet they don't makesensewhenwe ask them abouthallucinatedtrees. we will discovernew propertieswhich a true tree had past, however the hallucinated tree wears its propertieson its trunk, so that you could converse. The propertieswhich it supposedlyhas are preciselythosewhich it really is hallucinatedto have. Does Hamlet have a mole on his left shoulder? If he have been a true individual, shall we sensibly ask this questionand ensure that there's an answer,even if we don't realize it. yet for Hamlet, there isn't any answerin precept. but when the propertieswhich an hallucinatedobject supposedly has are preciselythosewhich it truly is hallucinatedas having, then the suspicion lies close to that it doesn't relatively have any properties,but is simply hallucinatedto have them. definitely the standard contrast betweenwhat a specific thing is and what it purely is alleged to be (or believed to be, or envisagedto be, and so on. ) applies additionally to nonexistentobjects. Someonemay think that the earth is flat, and he may well think it to be flat. yet this doesn't meanthat the earthis flat. (To saythat it truly is flat for him is simply an atrocious means of claiming that he believes it to be flat. ) equally, someonemay hallucinatea greenbirch tree. He may perhaps hallucinatethat he's pursuedthrough the woods and that he ultimately succeedsin hiding behinda birch tree. yet this doesnot meanthat he's operating within the woods, that thereis a birch tree, and that the tree is eco-friendly. hence whereas it truly is real that the tree is hallucinatedto havegreenleaves,it isn't really actual that it has eco-friendly leaves.