Realist Phenomenology: Husserl, Scheler, Reinach, Ingarden, Wojtyła and Gehlen

Part of a lecture course entitled Nature and Culture, delivered in the University at Buffalo in Fall 2023. Begins with a discussion of how I became interested in phenomenology in general and in realist phenomenology in particular. Continues with presentations of some of the main ideas of the realist phenomenologists, especially as concerns cultural entities.

[@defenderofwisdom]

This is a freaking gift to the world.

[@DarrenMcStravick]

Realistically speaking, ^this^ is objectively true.

[@Impaled_Onion-thatsmine]

Yes total independent entities and their ontology structure are reversed in reality they just leave it on the label an oxymoron

[@shawncostello770]

It seems to me that what Scheler is pointing out in your quote 1:39:48 is little more than the simple phenomenological objection. I do not in fact take a drink of molecules, I take a drink of water, which could be understood as molecules if I took the particular abstract view of the thing that allowed me to think of what I am drinking to be molecules. His view doesn't seem to isolate the object from these abstract views, rather, once it's attained as what it is, it can be grasped further through the use of abstract views. I think that is why the first quote uses non-Cartesian language and the second uses the specific name (use of "things", rather than "object" name). But maybe I'm drinking the cool-aid.

[@musicarroll]

Re Reinach's sister becoming a nun, I'm guessing the reference to her being a sister of Our Lord in the flesh meant that she and Jesus were both ethnic Jews. I suspect Barry's leaping claim of Reinach being God was due solely to his tongue being fastened to his cheek.

[@thomasvieth578]

I make a distinction between culture and civilization, and none of your closing remarks pertained to culture in this sense. Culture is the concert you are going to listen to while the road that gets you there is a civilizational achievement