Sunday, December 17, 2017

Method, Phenomenology, Attention

Hegel's Phenomenology is not to be confused with Husserl's, which is based on a different concept of Consciousness, entailing a different concept of Intention.  Nevertheless, they share a disregard for one mode of Consciousness--Attention.  The significance of this disregard is that Attention is a fundamental factor in Method--it is the Consciousness of what one is doing, without which a Method cannot be executed.  Underlying this disregard is adherence to the traditional concept of the immediate object of Consciousness being either some external object or itself, rather than one's Motility, which includes writing, looking, listening, etc.  But the execution of neither method of Phenomenology is possible without attentive Consciousness guiding it.

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