Animal body and animal world
Phenomenology at the edges of empathy
Keywords:
transcendental subjectivity, animal consciousness, animal world, intuitive world, practical truth, empathy, dismantlingAbstract
A first approach of transcendental phenomenology to the subject of subjectivity and consciousness of nonhuman animals is developed in eight points. Animal subjectivity and consciousness are understood as transcendental and are intimately linked with animal corporality and the constitution of the animal world. The diversity of possible constitutions of the world is investigated due to the interrelation between subjectivity, corporality and the world. Such diversity of constitutions is understood as diversity of ways of appearing the same true world (diversity of intuitive worlds), and the human constitution is deemed as the normal constitution. The possibility of a “practical” truth in animals is admitted; but it is also recognized that the intuitive human world has no prerogative as to the possibility of discovering the truth of the world. The aspects of empathic experience with animals and the phenomenological strategy of “dismantling” that allow relative access to the animal world, and at the same time the reasons why animal life will always keep an enigmatic reserve are exposed.
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