The Signs of Consciousness

According to Husserl, consciousness has, moment by moment, insight into itself. It is given to itself. Its being is present to itself. This self-consciousness in consciousness is conceived as intuition - immediacy. Consciousness is in relationship with itself immediately, not through intermediaries, not through signs. And adequately, apodictically--not through aspects, profiles, adumbrations. Consciousness itself produces this evidence of itself; it gives itself to itself, presents itself to itself. This immanent intuition is interwoven with transcendent and merely presumptive intuitions. Every consciousness is consciousness of something -of something given in the world or of its reproductions, its representations. The seeing of seeing occurs when seeing sees the visible, that which is transcendent to it. It is true that Husserl imagines an annihilation of the world, which leaves consciousness intact. But this only means that there would be seeing of visible givens, where the givens would never coalesce to confirm presumptive identifications- and seeing of that seeing. The immanent intuition, immediate and apodictic, is in reality a retrogressive intention that accompanies an intuition naturally turned to transcendent objects. Yet all excellence belongs to this ancillary structure. The imaginative annihilation of the world proved that consciousness can exist with immediate hyletic material alone, affecting its own substance; it can exist without objects and without a world, a coherent system of objects. The objects, however, and the world cannot subsist without consciousness. Objects and the world are constituted in consciousness. Its own existence is an absolute, independent of any and all objects

Aesthetics · Consciousness · Epistemology · Immediacy · Intuition · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Psychology