23 Jun 2009

Abstractum Now: Moments Overlap, Husserl, para 239, Supplementary B1 to: On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time

by Corry Shores
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Abstractum Now:

Moments Overlap



Edmund Husserl

On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time

B: Supplementary Texts


II

The Suspension of Objective Time, The Temporal Object, The Phenomenology of Objectivation and its Aporiae


No. 29

Meinong’s Distinction between Distributed and Undistributed Objects



From Paragraph 239


Certainly consciousness must reach out beyond the now. It must do this in each momentary act. But the momentary act is not the perception of the temporal object; on the contrary, it is an abstractum. In order for the perception of the temporal object to be possible, not only the final act but every momentary act must be overlapping; the perception, which itself is extended, distributed, consists in the fusion of these overlapping acts. None of these acts is entitled to be called perception. (234bc, boldface and underline mine)



From Paragraph 241



One point by itself is indeed nothing. (234d)






Husserl, Edmund. On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time (1893-1917). Vol 4 of Edmund Husserl: Collected Works. Ed. Rudolf Bernet. Trans. John Barnett Brough. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991.


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