the PR has resulted in a new tradition, called Continental Philosophy, as opposed to Analytic Philosophy.
phenomenology has aimed at descriptions of occurrences, events, experiences—in short, of world—that are not obscured by theoretical, philosophical, or cultural assumptions.
C.G. Jung claimed to have based his discoveries on this approach
that his psychology constitutes a record of his observation of psychic phenomena as they presented themselves to him.
Husserl's Phenomenological Reduction
a meditative practice
that dissociates, observes, transcends everyday ego consciousness.
a western method using existential philosophical analysis to attain a state comparable to those described in eastern meditative practices.
human nature.
has anyone else seen the dire methods that El Salvador has had to bring to bear on the gangs that were destroying their country?
they're not considered to be human, called terrorists, and confined in a newly built maximum security prison with security that defines a new level.
it's meant to dissuade any more youth from joining the gangs that were causing complete chaos.
Master Lii-tsu said:
That which exists through itself is called the Way. (Tao).
Tao has neither name nor shape. It is the one essence, the one primal spirit.
Essence and life cannot be seen. They are contained in the light of heaven.
The light of heaven cannot be seen. It is contained in the two eyes.
To-day I will be your guide and will first reveal to you the secret of the Golden Flower of the great One.
Of the four animals of Yahweh
only one has a human face.
That is probably Satan, the godfather of man as a spiritual being. Ezekiel’s vision attributes
three-fourths animal nature and only one-fourth human nature to the animal deity,
This symbolism explains Yahweh’s
behaviour, which, from the human point of view, is so intolerable:
it is the
behaviour of an unconscious being who cannot be judged morally.
Yahweh is a phenomenon and, as Job says, “not a man.”
Unconsciousness has an animal nature.
"Job was naïve, dreaming perhaps of a “good” God, or of a benevolent ruler and just judge.
But, to his horror, he has discovered that Yahweh is not human but, in certain respects, less than human,
just what Yahweh himself says of Leviathan (the crocodile):
He beholds everything that is high: He is king over all proud beasts.
animal symbolism with its borrowings from the much older theriomorphic gods of Egypt, especially Horus and his four sons."
"Clement of Rome taught that God rules the world with a right and a left hand, the right being Christ, the left Satan. Clement’s view is clearly monotheistic, as it unites the opposites in one God.
Later Christianity, however, is dualistic, inasmuch as it splits off one half of the opposites, personified in Satan, and he is eternal in his state of damnation.
then we are confronted with a major religious problem: the problem of Job."
The homeland of nothing whatsoever is the true abode.