Monday, February 11, 2019

The Death of Pure Consciousness: How A Priori Synthesis Precludes Intentionality

Famously the philosopher Edmund Husserl proclaimed in his "Crisis of the European Sciences" that, and I quote, the "Dream was over".
This could be seen in an Heideggerian light as the Death of Pure Consciousness to the preconscious non-intentional mind.  You see, phenomenologically, Husserl always made his eidetic reduction a priori constituted by intentionality...

But when Husserl proclaimed the Dream was Over,
I believe this was the first psycho-socio-philosophical step towards a new horizon of philosophical deconstruktion.  There is no intentionality in the pre-conscious mind, a priori.

Husserl must have come to understand this as a stepping stone to his own destruktion of phenominological cartesianism in lue of the coming Existentialist platform being described in such a way by Nazi Philosophe extrordionaire Martin Heidegger.

Heidegger,
who despite his most classico-Nazi personal morality dedicated his seminal "Being and Time" to the Czech Jew Husserl,
Knew that the primordiality of Being-in-the-world A Priori was as such a preconscious type of coping.

Not coping as understood in the modern lingo, ala' "coping mechanisms" and such,
but as the most basic and primordial thing that Beings as ontical entities do ontologically- that is, blindly and pre-consciously cope with the Worldhood-of-the-World by way of engagements.

All engaging action could be understood as a kind of coping with our Being-Alongside-Others, as a kind of engagement with a Totality-of-Tools that are always and to the utmost ready-to-hand due to their ontico-ontological priority as pure presence-at-hand.

But the death of Pure Consciousness must surely be in the absolute Destruktion of the prescience and salience of presence-as-such or pure present-at-handedness.

A Priori,
only the most non-intentional causal accounts can bear on how a skilled workman hammers a hammer, or how a race car driver switches gears and turns at high speeds, or how a professor uses a knob to open a door to his academic lair.  Intentionality is close to absurd, especially in light of recent discoveries in neuro-science.

The death of Intentionality, A Priori phenomenologically, can be seen as a new light of philosophy freed from the shackles of previous cartesianism.

Causality in the pre-conscious spirit is more akin to a kind of an identification than an intentional act of will.

Will seems to be me to be more sublimated...

Identification with the coping of being-toward-death seems to me to be the Existential task of the post-deconstructionist age.  One can be willful in a sense of not having any kind of identification with the world, so to speak.  In fact, will is so pervasive so as to be a kind of Socratic "Object" outside of our comprehension of the object of consciousness... that is, absolute objectivity.

The "will" cannot be constituted by our identity.

The will supersedes and precludes any intentional consciousness of itself-as-such, to be sure.

So in the the A Priori death of Pure Consciousness,
one can see how being-toward-death makes known the unknown!
The synthesis of being in the world with the act of res cogitare gives an absolutely delimited horizon upon which understanding can be apprehended.

RT STILLWELL 2019

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