Lord of the Rings DVD and Camus
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tarigwaemirAd Mundo Exteriore,
The LOTR DVD COMES OUT TODAY! Yay! As soon as I get off from work, my parents and I are going over to Best Buy to buy the DVD. And if it's not there, then we're heading over to Sam Goody. I'm afraid that everyone will have reserved a copy already and that the shelves will be sold out by the time I get there but I trust in the Valar to get me a copy.
Camus has now discussed how the phenomenologists end up escaping the absurd in a different yet essentially the same kind of "leap of faith" that the "theistic" existentialists did. Instead of deifying the irrational and turning to religion, they turn to Reason (with the capital R, yes) to provide meaning to the universe. Yet the absurd is a confrontation with the meaninglessness of life so it again denies the absurd like Kierkegaard and Chestov. I don't really understand phenomenology that well, so I'm just assuming Camus is correct. He says that the phenomenologists, especially Husserl, see consciousness as a direction of attention and believe that all experiences of all objects are equally important. Sounds good so far? They don't deny the fragmented nature of our perceptions and do not assert the "unifying" principle of reason. We cannot explain the universe; we can only describe. Still pretty good, right? And then somehow, this all becomes understanding the "essence" of an object through being conscious of it. What? Nani? Je me suis perdue! Again! Anyway, if anyone can provide me with a concise explanation of phenomenology, I'll be very, very grateful.
I need sleep.
...Tari
The LOTR DVD COMES OUT TODAY! Yay! As soon as I get off from work, my parents and I are going over to Best Buy to buy the DVD. And if it's not there, then we're heading over to Sam Goody. I'm afraid that everyone will have reserved a copy already and that the shelves will be sold out by the time I get there but I trust in the Valar to get me a copy.
Camus has now discussed how the phenomenologists end up escaping the absurd in a different yet essentially the same kind of "leap of faith" that the "theistic" existentialists did. Instead of deifying the irrational and turning to religion, they turn to Reason (with the capital R, yes) to provide meaning to the universe. Yet the absurd is a confrontation with the meaninglessness of life so it again denies the absurd like Kierkegaard and Chestov. I don't really understand phenomenology that well, so I'm just assuming Camus is correct. He says that the phenomenologists, especially Husserl, see consciousness as a direction of attention and believe that all experiences of all objects are equally important. Sounds good so far? They don't deny the fragmented nature of our perceptions and do not assert the "unifying" principle of reason. We cannot explain the universe; we can only describe. Still pretty good, right? And then somehow, this all becomes understanding the "essence" of an object through being conscious of it. What? Nani? Je me suis perdue! Again! Anyway, if anyone can provide me with a concise explanation of phenomenology, I'll be very, very grateful.
I need sleep.
...Tari
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Date: 2002-08-06 03:10 pm (UTC)