Sublime

Materialism, the belief that thought reflects the world, and does not create it, lay at the basis of his conception of history. “It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being which determines their consciousness” (SW i, 503).

This liberalism relies upon the idea that consciousness is not a thing but an activity; that its elemental constituent is not some soul-like substance but the activity of understanding; that it knows itself and the world only imperfectly, through its reflections on the world and itself; that its freedom is a matter of degree and a function of its u

Philosophy begins, and in my view must end, as an attempt to answer real questions asked by real people.

It is possible for Auerbach to see a particular writer such as Saint-Simon as an almost miraculous mutation exhibiting the shape of the future: “In his level of style, Saint-Simon is a precursor of modern and ultra-modern forms of conceiving and representing life.” Truth, for Auerbach, is not the property of an individual, indeed not essentially av

By combining Husserl's ideas and the ideas behind Gestalt psychology, Gurwitsch came to reject the notion of an ego as a phenomenological datum and saw the 'I' instead as a chain of experiences.