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Can you please explain the noesis-noema structure and provide some examples?
Noesis and noema are the terms used by Edmund Husserl to refer to the real and ideal content of consciousness. Noesis is the more straightforward of the two terms and refers to what happens in the...
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What is the content of a conscious act, and how is distinguished from the object of the act?
In phenomenology, the content of a conscious act is what occurs in the consciousness during the act of perception. The object of the act is the actual thing being perceived. For instance, if you...
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Please summarize Ideas by Edmund Husserl. What are the most important ideas in the work?
Ideas by Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) expresses the basic concepts of a philosophical movement known as "phenomenology". Using a philosophical method that to a degree is grounded in Cartesian...