Primary and Secondary Reflection Examples

1. This lecture is started by Marcel after discussing closely truth as a value, the setting of any kind of thought only in that location is this distinctive character of philosophical thought that is condemnation. It is about non bonnie the meaning of something at kickoff glance more than(prenominal) thanover by probing much deeply to the meaning of things and live ons that we encounter.2. Marcel is going to lucubrate how grammatical construction is rooted in daily life by natural endowment compositors cuttings that show the importance of probing more deeply into thought.3. Reflection happens collect to an occurrence of a phenomenon that is a miscarry from the daily normal life. If the phenomenon involves something that is deservingy to me then, the glistenion be arrives a personal act where no angiotensin-converting enzyme terminate reflect for oneself only oneself. If the watch was non valu qualified to me in the first place no reproof would form occu rred for it would fitting fuck off been something that occurred and not something that one would call as an experience.4. The lie that I made in the example was the occurrence that was a break from the normal workaday life. I considered myself as trustworthy and honest in that locationfore telling the lie was thence a phenomenon for me. The same things underside be give tongue to for this situation just standardized in the forward one. The phenomenon has conduct me to reflect for myself and probe deeply to the lie that I made. I reach such examinations as who I historically am for I was already not the man who I thought he was.5. This example is about cosmos queer to someone for something that they did and then, remembering a memory where I have done a similar thing. Being disappointed to someone was the break from normal eitherday life because disappointments only happen when your expectations do not meet with the reality. This has led to the psyche of who I really am because I am disappointed at someone who was exactly just like me before. I am not the man who I really thought I was anymore. This shutdown go ups from the reflection for oneself where one explores deeply into the meaning of one phenomenon. The reflection can leave me in anguish yet I am liberated.6. In the last example, realizations come to me from the things I have explored to more deeply. I am already a better communicator to myself and to my friend for I have undo the barrier that formerly stood at that place to block our communication. This is the liberating part of reflection. Where I was once anguished by the thoughts that I had because of what I reflected yet it brought something liberating to my life.7. The third example as I farmingd was about communication. This clearly shows the importance of the whimsey of intercourse. This shows that I fatality others and that other people need me. I need people who need me to make me assure myself of my aw areness that I am aware of myself.8. livelihood is one with reflection yet there seems to be and objection that differentiates life with reflection. Life is hot while reflection is cold. Life is like a fire burning with voices and experiences waiting to happen. Bursts of energy come for never-ending sources of emotions of joy and sadness. Reflection tends to make this thought as something that one would only analyze and not experience. Just like a motorcar broken into pieces and analyzed.9. The reflection in the intoxicated young man comes to him when sympathizes things that are important to him like his future. This is the something that is valuable to him that makes him reflect upon his actions. The rash things he said due to his intoxication was the phenomenon that made him reflect. His life was the thing that was at situation so then he had to reflect upon the things that he did and explore more deeply the consequences one action of his might do to his life. The other examples like the p risoner and the mother make me ask myself questions like What am I really living for? Who am I living for? What things do I live by? These are questions whose behaves make a great furbish up upon my life for these are the things that fuel my everyday life. I have to bed what I live for and k like a shot for sure that is something that is valuable to me. It has to be something worth living and dying for so I can say to myself that I have lived my life to the fullest every day.10. Reflection should be one with my life. It is not the bad guy in the movie anymore but the one that saves the day. Reflection makes us probe deeply into things and liberate us from our condense entailing. But if we use reflection to reduce life to animalism, then this makes reflection the antagonist and as something that is an unintelligible concept.11. Experience and reflection are analogous. star goes with the other. Experience is not just a passive memory but an active participation of the other. W e can say whence that one is more reflective if one has more experience and vice versa. But there are two levels of reflection that we need to differentiate. The first is primary reflection. Our conterminous consciousness of what happens in our experience is our primary reflection. We moldiness further break this down in order to come up with a deeper understanding. From this point, we redo the experience while integrating what we have discovered from it, thus a transcendence of knowledge by dint of reflection on experience. This is our secondary reflection or a reflection upon our reflection. Through this process, we pop off aware of our awareness. We experience exclamatory awareness. This is when we retrieve truly alive.12. The question who am I relieve hangs and yet remains to be the most important one we must answer. Through primary and secondary reflection we might be able this question finally.13. Because of the secondary reflection I am able to realize that I am like t his person wearing someone elses clothes. I have this feeling that I am not who I am now and who I was before. These realizations of tap makes me queasy because I cannot myself of the question Who really am I? 14. The civil servant asking the question are you Mr. so and so may think that I am insane if I answer Certainly not but this is how I feel. I think that I am not the man who I was anymore. I am not the person I have indite myself to be. My name already sounds different to me because of the realizations it brings to me. Who really am I?15. The uneasy feeling that I am not who I am anymore leads me to the question again of who I really am.16. I have realized that am a not a expressed some physical structure. I am just this non-some corpse linked in a profoundly obscure fashion, with a some physical structure about who I am being questioned about and about whom I am certainly not free to answer just what I like at the moment because I am not the person that the civil servant is describing anymore.17. The uneasy feeling leads us to realizations that I am not a definite some eubstance. We have to explore deeply and probe deeply to this problem and hopefully answer this question.18. I have to recognize the fact that I am not a definite some proboscis and therefore accept the facts that there is another sense in which I am some system and that other somebodies similarly hold up.19. Marcel criticizes the relationship that I have with myself because of the enigma of how I appear to myself as a definite some corpse and not a somebody. I could be anybody who I think I could be. A master, a friend, a teacher, a servant. This paradox is in relation to myself as a subject. It is in relation of myself as these definite characteristics are contingent.20. The questions come whether we can consider this not being a definite somebody exists. Exists in a way that I have something to define myself, something I live for and something I live by. emphatically the ans wer to this question is negative. But this does not mean that I am imaginary, for it does not mean that what is not actual is imaginary.21. Now I come to ask myself. Does anything really exist? Do I know of anything to boot out that I myself exist? These questions ask for a centrally significant innovation without which I cannot possibly judge anything else to exist. We should however expound and probe more into this statement of existential indubitablity otherwise we might have a conflict with total or modified skepticism.22. Total skepticism doubts the existence of anything. In the phenomenological level, total skepticism is meaningless. Our day to day experiences prove to us what exists and what does not. Experiences that we reflect upon further makes us aware of the existence of other people and objects. in that location is a clear distinction of what really exists or not through reflection.23. Relative skepticism on the other hand makes me ask myself if I do really exist si nce I am the one challenge about existence of other things I should be able to answer my own existence. The separation of I and exist in the question Do I really exist? proves that the I is never a that and withal that existence is not a predicate.24. The I exist is an indubitable bar of experience therefore it cannot be separated. Marcel points out that I exist lies in another level. It is not something that one can infer so quickly for I exist lies in the banks of every possible veritable of inference. because the substitution made by modern philosophers could be criticized since Sentio, ergo sum still hides a Cogito because of the ergo.25. To say that you exist cannot be separated from the fact that you are existing, that is, others are aware of your existence as well, to truly exist is to manifest. With it, doubting oneself cannot be avoided and by doing so we become more aware of ourselves as likened that a childs expressions.26. To exist and the awareness of existence ca nnot be separated because that is the character of the self that cannot be doubted. It is inherent to the self that he exists for himself and for others and that cannot be apart from the datum that is my body.27. The reason talks about applying primary and secondary reflection on my body. Primary and secondary reflection means to look at my body the same way as all other bodies, subject to end and non privileged. It is detaching this body from the thought that is mine.28. Secondary reflection is reuniting the ideas se apart by primary reflection and that is to unite the body back with the center.29. There is impediment in proceeding to secondary reflection without contradicting what was proposed in the primary reflection that both body and soul are distinct.30. It is a matter of prospect that we proceed in reflection by considering that body and soul are distinct but interrelated. If we should reflect on what makes up my body then, we should turn down the distinction that both a re things.31. To refer to my body as the my that I mean it to be then, I must reject a psycho-physical commensurateness belief that me and my body are mere things but preferably have an intimacy of relationship with each other. This intimacy manifests through the actual real life experiences of the body and the real thing from which we should get implications from and not impute ideal meanings to it. These experiences can cause us either to behave as a master of our body or a salve to it but either way, it is the my in my body that I own it to be.32. The author relates a persons ownership of the my of my body as the same with state that the dog is mine for such dog to be really mine, there must exist a positive relationship like evaluate that I have claim and all indebtedness to it and it too impart give the same positivity by responding to me.33. It cannot be argues that you are the owner of your body as you are the owner of the dog in the front analogy but in slave very, such is not the instance for the master of a slave who claims to have ownership of his slaves body but a slave cannot help but rest that his body is his especially after the injustices of slavery.34. I have a responsibility to look after my body by providing for it the same as I do for my dog. But we must be aware of an upper place of a situation that we are in, that we are now capable of dissociating ourselves from our lives motto that this body is not mine or looking after this body is not my responsibility.35. My body is mine to a point where I am capable of controlling it like your dogs obedience, but there is this time where an inner limit has to be considered as in the case of illness where you dont have the same control of your body as you used to have. This is expressed in the phrase I am no longer myself.36. The likeness of my dog as well as other objects that are mine is distinct from the spatio-terminal being that I am but here exists a link amid us that we could be associated with each other.37. There must be a link between me and my body from which is the means for me to relate all other ownerships and at every single ownership that there is. There is also that desire to personally experience that my body is mine.38. To own something requires oneself to claim it and take wish well of it , therefore some one who owns things cannot be reduces to a dematerialized ego who cannot claim nor care for something.39. Another observation made that when I become too connect with what I possess, it tends to become a part of my body. And when such possessions are jeopardise like in the case of being lost, it feels as if my body has also been affected.40. The strength of possession is as reliant with how united you are with your body, but as of external possessions, when they get lost. it leaves the owner at vulnerable state form being affected with the loss leaving him to want more to possess things that are not identical or that do not define him, mos t especially, a person from which the very idea cannot be owned.41. The link between me and my body cannot be asserted to be separate from each other but once that link breaks as by means of death, no experience could ever tell us now what we can still become.42. Looking at the previous situation at a different view by means of secondary reflection.43. My body can be thought of as being an instrument from which I can act what I intend to manifest myself into the world, this requires us to think what being an instrument would imply and under that conditions would that be.44. An instrument could be silent as something that would increase the efficiency of an existing power that is present in the person using the instrument like an optical apparatus for seeing. Therefore my body can be seen as a united body with a group of powers.45. I have to understand that my body is mine to avoid narrowing my body as an object. Also that I am my body is an instrument, an extension of another body s powers. Such unnumbered reveres could be avoided by claiming my body as mine and not an instrument.46. In claiming that I am my body, care must be observed so as not to reduce me as an object but instead as a subject, a being that has a relationship. Sympathetic speculation was a term used by Marcel to describe how my body was at first in accordance with my feelings.47. Using my body to feel mu body is using it as an instrument and it has been described in the previous numbers that my body should not be reduced to an apparatus and in this case just to view my feelings.48. Marcel ends it by introducing the inquiry to feelings that in doing so we do not begin with searching for explanations but rather look into how we get to feel in an everyday set up and how we represent it.