On Phenomenology

“I am not an Husserlian phenomenologist, since I construct not one, but a whole series of phenomenologies, of which only the last is meant to stand”. The Discipline of the Cave, p. 15.

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“It seems plain that our human world is a world in which innumerable ideas, meanings, facts, principles, constructions, hyphotheses, laws, images and ideals are as essential a part of the landscape as are the concrete bodies and thinking persons around which they cluster, and above which they float. They constitute a universal world of rational mind in which all thinking persons share, whatever the limitations of their immediate, sensuous viewpoint”.

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“The phenomenal world is obviously full of absences, dangers, possibilities of development, aggregates, presuppositions and past backgrounds, and this long before we formulate them in language: it requires only minimal daring to concede their presence in the phenomena revealed to animals.” The Discipline of the Cave, pp. 69-70.