(no subject)
‘My awareness of constructing an objective truth would never
provide me with anything more than an objective truth for me,
and my greatest attempt at impartiality would never enable me
to prevail over my subjectivity…, if I had not, underlying my
judgements, the primordial certainty of being in contact with
being itself, if, before any voluntary adoption of position I
were not already situated in an intersubjective world, and if
science too were not upheld by this basic doxa. With the
cogito begins that struggle between consciousnesses, each one
of which, as Hegel says, seeks the death of the other. For the
struggle ever to begin, and for each consciousness to be
capable of suspecting the alien presence which it negates, all
must necessarily have some common ground and be mindful
of their peaceful co-existence in the world of childhood.’
Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception, p 355
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provide me with anything more than an objective truth for me,
and my greatest attempt at impartiality would never enable me
to prevail over my subjectivity…, if I had not, underlying my
judgements, the primordial certainty of being in contact with
being itself, if, before any voluntary adoption of position I
were not already situated in an intersubjective world, and if
science too were not upheld by this basic doxa. With the
cogito begins that struggle between consciousnesses, each one
of which, as Hegel says, seeks the death of the other. For the
struggle ever to begin, and for each consciousness to be
capable of suspecting the alien presence which it negates, all
must necessarily have some common ground and be mindful
of their peaceful co-existence in the world of childhood.’
Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception, p 355
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