First we are presented with the Continental philosophy and within it contain some other philosophical thoughts. Some of the other philosophical thoughts include existentialism and phenomenology. An existentialist can and “do not guarantee that this existential predicament, as it might be called, can be solved.” (Moore & Bruder, 2011) What this means is that there is no answer to the existence of life and that a person cannot find value or meaning with in it. “In brief, phenomenology interests itself in the essential structures found within the stream of conscious experience—the stream of phenomena—as these structures manifest themselves independently of the assumptions and presuppositions of science.” (Moore & Bruder, 2011) This means that the assumptions are taken from the way that it is experienced from the first moment that you see it and the way that it actually “is”. Take the moon as an example and the way that people see it at first glance. Let’s say that it is a full moon and shining bright. Well the first impressions that we have is that it is a circle and it produces light.
Well that is not the way that it “is” just the first impression. We know that the moon is a sphere and that the light from the sun reflects off of the moon and not that the moon produces the light. That is the difference from what the first impression is and what it “is”. Now we move on to Pragmatism and what it had to contribute to the philosophy in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Pragmatism is one theory that originated in the United States and the people that came up with this theory believed that nothing is absolute or fixed. What they believed was that truth is relative to a specific time place and purpose which means that it is always changing when new information is added. This theory has a lot of parts but what it does partake in is that there is no merit to whether an idea is true of false. What matters is that the idea holds merit through the usefulness of it to the person. Another aspect to it is that “objects are not fixed substances but individual things (“existences” or “events,” he called them) that are imbued with meanings.” (Moore & Bruder, 2011)
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This means that a piece of wood means something different to every person that encounters it. If you take this piece of wood and give it to a carpenter then it is used for building. If you give the wood to a carver then it is looked at as a potential sculpture and then give it to a child and it becomes a toy. There are many uses for a piece of wood but what the theory is saying is that the piece wood other than it being wood has meaning behind it and does not make it a fixed thing. Finally we are the theory of Analytic philosophy which is the process of analysis and logic. Analytic philosophy is presented through the wording of information being presented.
If someone were to say that “The good bad guy does not exist” then they are taking in to question whether they do. In other philosophical theories because a person said thought about a good bad guy then that means it must exist because they brought it into existence. In Analytic philosophy the same phrase could be reworded and the person would say that “There are no good bad guys.” This does not mean that they do not exist but that there are none around.
Cite
Moore, B., & Bruder, K. (2011).
Philosophy: The power of ideas. (8th ed.).
New York, NY: McGraw Hill.
