The Experience of Nature in the Lifeworld

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https://doi.org/10.1590/2965-1557.036.e202431829

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The problem posed to phenomenology with regard to nature is to counteract current trends that overlook the surrounding world of human beings. It is the lifeworld with which we are connected in our everyday life through perception, bodily movements, and immediate action. A true and authentic rationalism cannot ignore the lifeworld as the realm of original and ultimate evidence. The trend to regard it as unworthy must be set aside because intuition in prescientific life provides the foundation for the exact knowledge of science. In this manner, what remains outside the scope of scientific method is not a realm of unwarranted statements, and science itself can have a foundation. Great scientific discoveries entail as a negative side a concealment that concerns nature in general and in particular our lived body as an organ of perception and movement. The purpose of this paper is to explore the main characteristics of this development, that is to say, (i) the overlaying of a garb of ideas on the surrounding world, and (ii) the domination of the environment in an attitude that does not let things remain according to their own being, but rather forces itself on them. Both the concealment of the lifeworld by science and the incorporation of the products of science of the latter into the former entail a domination that requires a human answer. The overall situations of concealment and domination are reflected in the consideration of our lived body by means of (iii) a process of objectification that covers up its primal traits, and (iv) views that overlook its intrinsic correlation with nature.

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Roberto Juan Walton, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Doutor em Filosofia pela Universidade de Buenos Aires

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2024-12-05

How to Cite

Walton, R. J. (2024). The Experience of Nature in the Lifeworld. Revista De Filosofia Aurora, 36. https://doi.org/10.1590/2965-1557.036.e202431829

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Continuous Flow