Synopsis:
- The essence of things is not its physical constituents or physical laws, but the way we experience them
- "Phenomenology" is the science of phenomena
- Science caused a crisis by denying humans the truth of the reality that they experience (by proving that phenomenon and being are not identical)
- Advocates a return to the primary experience of the world
- Phenomena and being are one and the same
- Consciousness is intentional: consciousness is "consciousness of"
- The intentionality of consciousness correlates the act of knowing (noesis) of the subject and the object that is known (noema)
- The phenomenon is intuitively known to the subject
- The essence (eidos) of the phenomenon is the sum of all possible "intuitive" ways of knowing the phenomenon
- This has to be achieve after "bracketing out" ("einklammerung") the physical description of the phenomenon (the description given by the natural sciences)
- What is left is a purely transcendental knowledge of the phenomenon
- Subject and object are not separated
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