Summary:
Essay is a study of Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, with a view to understanding phenomenology. Defines phenomenology and references three texts on the study of phenomenology.
This essay will refer only to the three texts given here:
M.M.P - Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Primacy of Perception and Its Philosophical Consequences
E.H - Edmund Husserl, Pure Phenomenology, Its Method, and Its Field of Investigation
M.H - Martin Heidegger, The Fundamental Discoveries of Phenomenology, Its Principle, and the Clarification of Its Name
Pure phenomenology takes as given the existence of an intersubjective world(1), ("the totality of perceptible things and the thing of all things" M.M.P), and the existence of perceptual subjects who perceive the phenomena(2) of the world. (This does not necessarily mean the existence of the self, ."..all consciousness is perceptual, even the consciousness of ourselves." Objectively it is possible for the self to remain a phenomenon that could exist outside of consciousness, and can therefore be perceived and analysed phenomenologically).
Phenomenology attempts to describe the structures of experience.....
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