Philo midterm orals

para maalala ko:

1. The “traumatisms” from life make us reflect. But it is from the “loving struggle” with texts that we become aware that “the true life is absent”. Philosophy as the quest for the “sense of life” can be prepared for by the love of literature (especially national) and the love for the Bible, the Book of books.

2. To think philosophically is to reflect on my lived experiences and to come up with answers that I can address to all humanity.

3. For Husserl, phenomenology as rigorous science recalls the new vigor given to the intentionality of consciousness. For Heidegger, ontology is the attempt to anwer the question of being as verb.

4. Levinas’ fascinating insight on the urgency to escape “il y a” helps us appreciate the coming of being as existents. In existing, however, there is still a solitude of being from which I have to be delivered by the Other.

5. In emerging as a separate being, I immediately experience life as innocent enjoyment—jouissance. Life is a sincerity.

6. The social relation with the Other is a relation of dis-inter-ested-ness where the I is non-in-different to the Other. The relations of eros and fecundity are relationships beyond knowledge, possession, and power.