Notes on chapter 1 of Sartre's "Transcendence of the Ego" Today I'm sharing my notes on the first chapter of Jean-Paul Sartre's Transcendence of the Ego. The notes provide a blow by blow of each of the chapter's main three sections, including some especially relevant quotes. I dug into this book at the behest Matthew A. Stanley • Philosophy
How Freud pioneered a structuralist trajectory to Brentano's phenomenology The phenomenological method as developed by Edmund Husserl continues to exert influence over contemporary metapsychological conversations, but it remains haunted by an unresolved tension regarding the nature of the "I", or the Latin ego. On the one hand, the practice of phenomenology assumes the intentionality of consciousness whereby Matthew A. Stanley • Philosophy
Karma -- the return of the ego in Buddhism Buddhism as traced through the Mahayana branch, especially Ch'an in China and Zen in Japan, proposes a therapy which remedies suffering through a dissolving of the problem. Nirvana is Samsara; Samsara is Nirvana. Realize there is no problem, affect a shift in perspective, and the problem disappears. This Matthew A. Stanley • Buddhism
Regression to an Imagined Past: Deconstructing the Childhood Friend in Anime Anime relies heavily on tropes, which means that viewers will encounter similar character patterns repeatedly as they watch large amounts of anime. I find the variations of the ‘childhood friend’ (osananajimi) trope particularly fascinating, largely because I had such a figure in my own life, a girl I'd Matthew A. Stanley • Philosophy
"the formation of the earth in vivid color" by DALL-E The stars have no happenings: assessing Meillassoux's ancestrality challenge Meillassoux's challenge for "correlationism" At the outset of his book After Finitude, Quentin Meillassoux proposes a thought experiment which he believes poses a problem for all "correlationist" philosophies, namely, those philosophies which claim that "we only ever have access to the correlation between Matthew A. Stanley • Philosophy
Samsara Diagnostics is now on Ghost Welcome! If you're here, you're in a good place. I'm glad you could join us. I used to write Samsara Diagnostics over at Substack, and while Substack is an awesome tool for quickly and easily launching a newsletter, I recently decided to move my Matthew A. Stanley
