quinta-feira, dezembro 18, 2014

since the genesis of the objective body is only a moment in the constitution of the object, the body, by withdrawing from the objective world, will carry with it the intentional threads linking it to its surrounding and finally reveal to us the perceiving subject as the perceived world. (MP, PP 86, 72, 83)

Consciousness of the world in not based on self-consciousness; rather, they are strictly contemporary: there is a world for me because I am not ignorant of myself; I am not concealed from myself because I have a world. (MP, PP 344, 298, 347)

 if one's own body and the empirical self are nothing but elements of the system of experience, objects among other objects in the eyes of the true I, how can we ever confuse ourselves with our body, how could we believe that we saw with our eyes what we in truth grasp with an inspection of the mind? (MP, PP 241, 208, 241)