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Fifth Meditation

Q: How is an objective realm realised?

Through a community of other conscious subjects who can together constitute it. This means that objects must intercommunicate , that they should affect one another, so as to establish transcendental intersubjectivity.

17 important questions on Fifth Meditation

What does Husserl mean with empathy?

The experiential awereness of another subject. It is a substantial part of the fifth meditation to explain how empathy is possible as an intential achievement.

What is thereness-for-everyone?

The idea that the merest physical object presents itself to me with the sense of being perceptible, and hence determinable by others. Therefore it is aways co-intended wherever we speak of objective reality. The world is not my private synthetic formation, it is alien to me, as intersubjective.

What does Husserl mean with the Primordinal world?

The world abstractively dealt with in the earlier meditations, i.e. Without other ego's

How comes the universal superaddition of sense to my primordinal world to be?

With the constitution of sense of other subjects of experience.

What does Husserl mean with alien(other)?

Anything that genuinely transcends one's own consciousness.

How is an objective realm realised?

Through a community of other conscious subjects who can together constitute it. This means that objects must intercommunicate, that they should affect one another, so as to establish transcendental intersubjectivity.

What does Husserl mean with Eigenheit or ownness(peculiar)?

It is the result of the novel way of bracketing: it is effected 'inside the transcendental sphere'. A discription of a level of consciousness that is to be founding in relation to the higher constituted unities, since the higher level emerges only when the lower levels of experience happens to follow a certain synthetically unified course.

The analogy of ownness/peculiarity?

The constitution of space, i.e. How we come to be aware of objects spatially arred around is. It is a founded intentional accomplishment. It presopposes that we experience various 'sensory data or various kinaestheses)The sensation by which bodily position like weight and movement are perceived(muscle sense)

What does Husserl mean with with sphere of ownness?

Everything in our conscious life, including all the objects that are constituted therein, except for other subjects and whatever presupposes such subjects. It therefore includes the intentionality directed to what is alien. It excludes the noematic side of intentionality directed to others, but it includes the noetic side.

What does Husserl mean with Leib(body)?

It refers to an animate, living (lived) body. Organism

What does Husserl mean with Körper(material body)?

It refers to any material body in the philosophical sense (body by Cairns)

The central problem of the fifth meditation?

Explaning how any material thing, constitutable within solipsistic experience, could come to be perceived as a body, and as an alien body.

The three dimensions to the original constitution of our awareness?

First, my body is the 'null centre' of my orientation towards the world. It is the perceptual origin.
Second, my body is what i can move 'without further ado'; it is that by and with which i move any other objects (kinaesthesia).
Third the body is a locus of feelings. It is a sensitive body.
An awareness of my body in these three ways is primary and is presupposed by any 'external' perception of it.

How can i recognize another body as something that is originally constituted in an alien sphere of ownness in the way which my body is constituted for me within my sphere of ownness?

It is founded upon a perceived likeness between that thing and my own body. It is such a likeness that motivates a 'transfer of sense' from my own body to the external thing, whereby the latter is apperceived as a lived body(Leib). This is a physical likeness of course.

What does Husserl mean with that the other is but a intentional medification of my own self?

All of this is governed by the apperceptive transfer 'as I would be functioning if i appeared over there moving thus. It is precisely this behaviour which allows the existence of another to be confirmed or disconfirmed in our experience, for such behaviour may be harmonious or not.

What is required for objectivity to arise?

The material thing that is the eventual body of the other, constituted in my primordial world, should acquire the sense of being the very same as a living body constituted in another ego's primordial world. The other's sphere of ownness and mine will the nintentionally intersect at this common, and therefore objective, point. What is central to securing the needed identity here is, that the accomplishment in question is a perception - an act that involves the uniting of what is presented and of what is appresented in a single object.

What does the 'objectivating equalization of my existence with that of all others' mean?

I am now equalized with any other possible subject and hold no privileged position as regards the constitution of reality.

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Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Husserl and the Cartesian Meditations | 9780415287586 | A D Smith, et al

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Fifth Meditation

17 important questions on Fifth Meditation

What does Husserl mean with empathy?

What is thereness-for-everyone?

What does Husserl mean with the Primordinal world?

How comes the universal superaddition of sense to my primordinal world to be?

What does Husserl mean with alien(other)?

How is an objective realm realised?

What does Husserl mean with Eigenheit or ownness(peculiar)?

The analogy of ownness/peculiarity?

What does Husserl mean with with sphere of ownness?

What does Husserl mean with Leib(body)?

What does Husserl mean with Körper(material body)?

The central problem of the fifth meditation?

The three dimensions to the original constitution of our awareness?

How can i recognize another body as something that is originally constituted in an alien sphere of ownness in the way which my body is constituted for me within my sphere of ownness?

What does Husserl mean with that the other is but a intentional medification of my own self?

What is required for objectivity to arise?

What does the 'objectivating equalization of my existence with that of all others' mean?

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