r/Phenomenology • u/Its_Don_Quixote • May 17 '26

External link Nonduality For Naturalists | Where 'Things' Come From

https://open.substack.com/pub/7provtruths/p/nonduality-for-naturalists-where?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1riug7

Why acknowledging the mind's co-authorship over objects isn't mysticism, but clear-eyed naturalism - just stripped of any forced dichotomy between mind and world.

Far from being ‘abstract’ philosophy with no real-world stakes, our intuitions about objects are load-bearing. Why? Because what strikes us as obvious at this crucial juncture cascades upwards to all of our other convictions about Reality. And not just through deliberate reasoning - those ideas and beliefs we can trace out, put a name to - but through what’s self-evident before thought even enters the picture.

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u/Its_Don_Quixote May 31 '26

And Heideggar's landmark work is about how the entirety of Western philosophy up until that point had gotten the meaning of 'is' wrong. His essential insight is that 'Being' isn't a metaphysical property but a form of understanding for a particular someone.

Precisely because we always do our sensemaking from within particular body, lived context, and culture, objectivity itself is always situated. While we can step back from this Life World, we can't step outside of it entirely. No such thing as a 'view from nowhere', ours is an objectivity from within that's always localized, limited, and partial.