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Facticity: Once You Have Named Something You Will Never Again Truly See It
By Tom Bunzel – Collective Evolution
Facts are our labels to explain nature. The occurrence in the image above has been called a “galaxy.”
Facticity is a term coined by Phenomenologists (philosophers who influenced Existentialists like Sartre and Camus) to more directly address what is.
The image above is not a galaxy; it is a snapshot of an immense grouping of what we call “stars” that we have conceptually identified as a “galaxy.” No “galaxy” exists in Nature outside of our brains.
Phenomenology deals with only what we know for sure. We know we exist. We know that there are perceptions, feelings and thoughts. We do not know, but rather surmise, that there is a separate self because we observe (have perceptions of) the phenomena of other similar selves who presumably also have perceptions. But we only know our own perceptions as phenomena. And we have “learned” that we are separate selves, with names and “identities.”
So Phenomenology deals only with what is –not with what we think we know.
The father of Phenomenology, Martin Heidegger’s “philosophy is founded on the attempt to conjoin what he considers two fundamental insights: the first is his observation that, in the course of over 2,000 years of history, philosophy has attended to all the beings that can be found in the world (including the world itself), but has forgotten to ask what Being itself is. This is Heidegger’s ‘question of Being,’ and it is Heidegger’s fundamental concern throughout his work” –“Da Sein” in German means Being Here (there is no “I”) to be necessarily found.
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Source: http://www.riseearth.com/2014/04/facticity-once-you-have-named-something.html
