The world is nothing but world-as-meaning, and the phenomenal reduction is idealistic, in the sense that there is here a transcendental idealism which treats the world as an indivisible unity of value shared by Peter and Paul, in which their perspectives blend. Peters consciousness and Pauls consciousness are in communication and the perception of the world by Peter is not Peters doing anymore that its perception by Paul is Pauls doing. In each case, it is the doing of a pre-personal form of consciousness, whose communication raises no problems, wince it is demanded by the very definition of consciousness, meaning or truth. Insofar as I am consciousness, that is, insofar as something has meaning for me, I am neither here nor there, neither Peter nor Paul; I am in no way distinguishable from an other consciousness, since we are equally and immediately in touch with the world and since the world is by definition, unique, being the system in which all truth coheres. A logically consistent transcendental idealism rids the world of its opacity and its transcendence. The world is precisely that thing of which we form a representation, not as men or as empirical subjects, but in so far as we are all one light and participate in the One without destroying its unity. Analytical reflection knows nothing of the problem of other minds, or of that of the world, because it insists that with the first glimmer of consciousness there appears in me theoretically the power of reaching some universal truth, and that the other person, being equally without thisness, location or body, the Alter and the Ego are one and the same in the true world which is the unifier of minds. There is no difficulty in understanding how I can conceive the other, because I and consequently the other are not conceived as part of the women stuff of phenomena, they have validity rather than existence. There is nothing hidden behind these faces and gestures, no domain to which I have no access, merely a little shadow which owes its very existence to the light.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 20:03:26 +0000
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