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The Context of Context and Phenomenon: An Attempt at Self-Interpretation

Summary/Abstract: Since the time of René Descartes and his contemporaries, modern philosophy has sought to ground science, humanity’s entire worldview, and society itself upon the principles of pure rationality. Yet in the radical materialism and atheism that emerged during the Enlightenment – in thinkers such as Claude Adrien Helvétius, Paul-Henri Thiry d’Holbach, and the Marquis de Sade – the meaningfulness of both the world and human existence ultimately appeared to be called into question. The transcendental philosophies beginning with Immanuel Kant may therefore also be interpreted as desperate attempts to preserve belief in the meaningfulness of human life while remaining compatible with the principles of radical rationality. The same intention can be observed in the classical figures of phenomenology, such as Edmund Husserl, and likewise among contemporary phenomenologists such as László Tengelyi and Balázs Mezei. In my book Context and Phenomenon III: The Anatomy of the Absolute, I likewise attempt to defend belief in the meaningfulness of human life in a manner consistent with contemporary scientific research, on the basis of phenomenological philosophy – that is, a mode of thinking which takes subjective, first-person experience as its constant point of orientation.

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