Chapter 15 Brown priest's robe (1)

6. Brown priest's robe So the second question: what do we think the world is like? To this question, idealists such as Kant answered. What did they answer? "Nothing," they replied. Spiritualists, whose point of view is that we can only recognize things that appear in our consciousness, which is a semi-divine entity that frees humans from animal nature.We know the world within the reach of our consciousness, because that is what appears in consciousness -- nothing else. Case in point, happens to be a delightful kitten named Lev.Why?Because I found it would be easy to use a cat as an example.I ask you: how do you know it's a cat, or even what a cat is?The normal answer is your knowledge of cats, and certain conceptual and linguistic mechanisms that allow you to form this knowledge.But the idealist's answer is: we can't know whether our understanding and concept of cats, the image of cats in our consciousness conforms to the image that cats think deep down in their hearts.My current concern is that maybe my fat four-legged fellow with the slightly quivering whiskers that I have kept in my mind's drawer labeled "Cat" is really just an unseemly cat. It's just a green gum ball that meows.But my senses tell me that's not the case, and this dirty green rubber ball escapes my disgust and my simple trust, and appears in my consciousness as a gluttonous and soft and smooth appearance .

This is Kantian idealism.The world we know comes from the "ideas" formed by our consciousness.But there's an even more depressing theory than that, one that presents a more horrific sight, touching and not knowing it's a piece of drool-worthy green slime, or, in the morning, smearing bread you think should be inserted into the toaster The disc is inserted into the pustular-filled cavity. And Edmund Husserl's spiritualism, which afterward reminded me of brown robes for priests who, like the Puritans, were deluded by religious separation. In this latter theory there is only the perception of cats.Where's the cat?Oh, we ignore it.No need for a cat at all.for what?what catPhilosophy permits itself only to indulge in purely spiritual pleasures.The world is an inaccessible reality, and trying to understand it is a thankless task.What do we think the world is like?nothing.All knowledge is just the self-study of self-reflective consciousness on self-reflective consciousness, so let's just dismiss the world.

This is phenomenology: "the science of things that appear to consciousness."What is a day in the life of a phenomenologist?Get up first, then realize that under the shower head, washing a body that has no basis for existence, swallow a few slices of bread that have been voided, put on a few clothes like empty parentheses, and arrive at Caught a cat after his office. Whether cats exist or not, and what their nature is, has nothing to do with him.This uncertainty did not interest him.On the contrary, it is undeniable that a cat manifested in his consciousness, and this is what our phenomenologist is concerned with.

Besides, this appearance is still very complicated.It is remarkable that someone can elaborate on the function of perception from this point, that is, through the consciousness of a thing, while remaining indifferent to the existence of the thing itself.Did you know that our consciousness cannot directly detect it, but it can carry out a series of complex synthesis, and rely on continuous shaping and processing, and finally make various things appear on our sense organs of different objects, such as a A cat, a broom or a fly swatter, God only knows if it will work.You can take a cat test and think how do you know your cat's front, back, up and down, and at the moment, you can only see its front, your consciousness should synthesize your cat, and you don't even have Finding that you don't know enough about your cat from all possible angles, and finally synthesize this complete cat image by creating something your eyes can't give you.The same goes for the fly swatter, you'll never find out that while you can totally visualize the fly swatter in your mind, you don't have to flip it over to know what the other side looks like, magically.

This knowledge is useful.We cannot imagine Manuela using a fly swatter without developing the various shaping abilities essential to her perception.In addition, we can't imagine Manuela using a fly swatter because there are absolutely no flies in rich people's homes.No flies, no smallpox, no stink, no family secrets.In the homes of rich people, everything is clean, smooth, and hygienic. Therefore, the monopoly of fly swatters and the publicity of family ugliness are avoided.