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JOURNAL OF EAST-WEST THOUGHT No.1, Vol.14, Spring 2024

Reality, Real Being, and Phenomenological Noumenology

 

Josef Maria Seifert

 

Edited by X. Chen and J. Z. Ding
With an introduction by Xunwu Chen

 

Introduction  1

 

Chapter One: THE PRIMORDIAl PHENOMENON OF REALITY

1. What is Reality and Real Existence?  13
2. Husserl's Twofold Error in the Characterization of “Reality”  14
3. Scheler's Incorrect Assertion about Reality and its Primary Criterion and Form of Cognition  18
4. The Irreducible and Indefinable Primordial Phenomenon of Reality Enables its Grasp through its Opposites and Essential Features  19
5. The “Final Being” of the Real Beings  22

 

Chapter Two: PHENOMENOLOGY AS NOUMENOLOGY

1. Indubitable Knowledge of Real Being in the Cogito  41
2. Characteristics of Essentially Necessary States of Affairs 62
3. Critical Reflections on the Immediate Datum of the Real Being of the Conscious Self and His Acts A Realist Phenomenological Response to David Hume’s Denial of Personal Identity  83
4. Kant’s Objections against the Cogito and Replies   90
5. Knowledge of Other Persons “I” – “Thou” – “He”/ “She”  97

 

Chapter Three: FROM CONTINGENT BEINGS TO THE MOST REAL ENS NECESSARIUM

1. From Contingent Beings to the Necessary Being  100
2. From Being in Time that Moves towards Nothingness to Eternal and Most Real Being  109

 

About the Author  113
 

JOURNAL OF EAST-WEST THOUGHT No.4, Vol. 14, Winter 2024
ISSN: 2161-7236 (Print), 2168-2259 (Online) / NUMBER 4, VOLUME 14, DECEMBER 2024

Articles: Philosophical Studies

 

YOSHIO TAKANASHI/ A Comparative Investigation of Emerson’s “God-within” and Shinran’s Amida-Buddha   1

 

R.LEKSHMI/  Gandhian Philosophy: An Alternative Method for Practising Liberal Democracy   13

 

VANAMALA DEEPAK. K & SRIDHAR MELUKOTE K/ The Science and Philosophy of Creation in Mahabharatha-An exegesis of Vyasa Kootas by The Kriya Masters   25

 

SANGHAMITRA SINHA,MALAVIKA SINHA & NAMGYAL TSHEWANG BHUTIA/ A Study on Third Mundaka Canto 1, Mundaka Upanisada CPP   39

 

PRABHAKAR/ The Politics of Metaphysics in Indian Philosophy   49


Articles: Literary & Art Studies

SHALINI & AJOY BATTA /  Traversing Third Space: Analyzing Global Identity, Colonialism, and Hybridity through a Bhabhaian Lens in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Admiring Silence   61

 

PRATIBHA TIKARAMJI SOMKUWAR & SAROJ KUMAR/ Narrating Trauma and Memories in the Posthuman World of Sci-fi Films   75

 

BISHAL BISWAKARMA / Reimagining and Relocating Gorkhas: A Postcolonial Glimpse in Frontier, A Short Story by Shiv Kumar Rai   85 
                      
REEMA DEVI & PRIYA RAGHAV / Depiction of Female-Sexuality in The Fisher Queen’s Dynasty: A Critical Study   93

 

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