Chapter Consciousness without Existence: Descartes, Severino and the Interpretation of Experience

Consciousness is connected with the fact that a subject is aware and open to the manifestation of whatever appears. Existence, by contrast, is used to express the fact that something is given in experience, is present, or is real. Usually, the two notions are taken to be somehow related. This chapte...

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description Consciousness is connected with the fact that a subject is aware and open to the manifestation of whatever appears. Existence, by contrast, is used to express the fact that something is given in experience, is present, or is real. Usually, the two notions are taken to be somehow related. This chapter suggests that existence is at best introduced as a metaphysical (or meta-experiential) concept that inevitably escapes the domain of conscious experience. In order to illustrate this claim, two case studies are considered. The first case is provided by Descartes’s famous treatment of consciousness and existence in his Meditations on First Philosophy. The second case is meant to contrast the Cartesian approach by taking the opposite route, as delineated by Emanuele Severino (1929–2020) in his ‘fundamental ontology’.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1284102025-02-05T06:11:21Z Chapter Consciousness without Existence: Descartes, Severino and the Interpretation of Experience Sangiacomo, Andrea René Descartes Emanuele Severino consciousness existence Consciousness is connected with the fact that a subject is aware and open to the manifestation of whatever appears. Existence, by contrast, is used to express the fact that something is given in experience, is present, or is real. Usually, the two notions are taken to be somehow related. This chapter suggests that existence is at best introduced as a metaphysical (or meta-experiential) concept that inevitably escapes the domain of conscious experience. In order to illustrate this claim, two case studies are considered. The first case is provided by Descartes’s famous treatment of consciousness and existence in his Meditations on First Philosophy. The second case is meant to contrast the Cartesian approach by taking the opposite route, as delineated by Emanuele Severino (1929–2020) in his ‘fundamental ontology’. 2023-11-29T05:41:36Z 2023-11-29T05:41:36Z 2023-11-27T17:12:34Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20231127_9791221501698_9 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85599 9791221501698 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/128410 eng Knowledge and its Histories open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85599/1/38464.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85599/1/38464.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.10 10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.10 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9791221501698 30 Florence open access
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