A Critique of Existential-Phenomenology and Hermeneutics

[arenadri7]

19th of November (1833-1911) was born WILHELM DILTHEY, German Philosopher.

[reyty2]

@arenadri7 Thanx

[dylanmanicfanatic]

Nothingness," and to a large extent Merleau-Ponty's, "Basic Writings" would have been lost on me. I used to view MP as the middle ground between Satre and Beauvoir, but the more I read her, I think I understand MP couldn't have wrangled the two's intellectual sphere's together w/o the insights of Miss B. Great post and thanks for sharing!

[dylanmanicfanatic]

First, awesome job, great synopsis. Second, great structure and fluidity in the video, thank you, we know how long--winded and tangential philosophers can get! I appreciate the succinctness of you're presentation and I think you hit all the major points, and give plenty of recourse for a viewer to investigate their own position w/o pushing them too hard either way. Finally, thanks for giving Simone de Beauvoir, the credit she most is deserving of. If not for "The Second Sex," "Being and...

[reyty2]

@Fushapan i have a video of husserl in his own word. Husserl's Phenomenology In His Own Words -- "Rey Ty"

[reyty2]

@Fushapan thanx for your comments. in my other video watch?v=y9_3h7Jr1gI, i quoted husserl himself, saying he is a solipsist, etc. Best wishes 2 u.

[reyty2]

@Fushapan thanx. pleez tell me what r d flaws.

[Professoranton]

Lots of great stuff here

[reyty2]

@Professoranton Thanks!

[doubleeagle2009]

what is the backing music? its great?

[reyty2]

@doubleeagle2009 It's Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez

[olivenderella]

metaphysics are just an outdated humancentrist view of the world or a relict of natural philosophy.

They use methods which are thousand years old and refuse the use of new tools to see that inside of ourselves is just as material as outside of it .These people are just frustrated that they didnt evolve since antiquity.blablablating things nobody understands anyway because they re stripped of any sense.Modern sciences r serious this is oooooollllld.

[reyty2]

Thanks for your comments. This video is a critique. So we are in the same boat. What are your alternatives specifically, please? I'd love to hear from you.

[craigvanderhart]

@olivenderella I do not understand what the term "humancentrist" means. The modern sciences are indeed very serious and very successful, but I don't see how they replace or refute metaphysics. Check into (besides Husserl) Bernard Lonergan and C.S. Peirce for philosophers who embrace both modern science and metaphysics.

[namiejames]

Calling E-P & Hermeneutics subjective is falling into the same dualism that these perspectives try to overcome. One key question we need to answer is whether philosophy should be concerned with the material world as the physical scientists study it, or the experiential world as the human scientists study it. The "entities" of a material world should not be confused with those of an experiential world--that's the distinction between metaphysics in the physical world and ontology.

[reyty2]

I agree with you that E-P & H fall into dualism that they try to overcome. You are right that *one* key question is whether philosophy should be concerned with the material world as physical scientists or human scientists study it--there are different replies, though, depending on one's perspective. Lacking consistently through the ages, philosophers from the ancient times to the present have used the term "metaphysics" and "ontology" differently, sometimes interchangeably, though.

[teched246]

I can't see any reason why philosophy souldn't be concerned with the "material" world. The growing distinction and synonymous chasm between the words"material" and "physical" have given way to concept of "thingification" (of logic in general) to gradually come into focus-- especially in the field of mathematics. If logic itself, at times act's or manifest's as a "force" does philosophy really have a fundamental jurisdiction in studies of the material world?

[teched246]

"All things in all universes move according to law, and the law which regulates the movement of the planets is no more immutable than the law which regulates the material expressions of man.

The great aim of the mystery schools of all ages has been to reveal the workings of the Law which CONNECT MAN THE MATERIAL AND MAN THE SPIRITUAL(metaphysics)."- Emerald Tablets preface

If both are connected by Law, then it is simply a matter of the two being affected by different operations of Law.

[mailepors]

it's A. SCHUTZ, not A. SCHULTZ. Hope that wasn't too embarassing for you.

[reyty2]

Thanks, for correcting my misspelling. Much appreciated.

[LikeAGlassAsterisk]

I really don't like how you view Bacon as a proponent of positivism; that is quite a distortion. His endorsement of the inductive-experimental method was almost always stressed in terms of utility rather than theoretical reason.

[reyty2]

@LikeAGlassAsterisk In a book published by Blackwell in 1994, Oxford Philosophy Professor A. J. Ayer & Jane OGrady wrote: Positivism is a Philosophical position, traceable to Francis Bacon (p. 494).

[mrfatd]

this is one jam-packed video! im a physics major and i enjoyed this a lot!

[reyty2]

thanx. i'm glad u liked it. physics & philo--a gr8 combo indeed! cheers.

[reyty2]

Thanx 4 your comments. Aside from describing existential-phenomenology & hermeneutics, I gave my critique of their weaknesses.

[gnurglan]

I like this very much. Extremely handy and useful for students of philosophy and history of ideas. Thanks!