Head and Heart: Affection, Cognition, Volition as Triune Consciousness. Contributors: Andrew Tallon - author. Publisher: Fordham University Press. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1997. Page Number: *.

Chapter 1

Phenomenology, Intentionality, Embodiment


Exalt not thy heart, that it be not brought low. Ptah-Hotep, Instruction, no. 25 (c. 3550 B.C.)

The human heart is more dangerous than mountains and rivers, more difficult to understand than Heaven itself. Chuang-Tze, Philosophy, ch. 11. ( 400 B.C.).

The heart perceives that which the eye cannot see. Algazali (1059-1111), Ethics, Bk. 2, ch. 21, maxim 38 (c. 1100).

Summary

First, we note the general idea of phenomenology as descriptive philosophy and distinguish two kinds of phenomenology according to the central idea of the phenomenological method: intentionality. Second, we begin to move from the physical and psychical space between persons toward the center of consciousness. Third, we show how embodiment, especially in motion, manifests its own affective intentionality. The possibility of affective intentionality is established in this chapter, as is the sense of the embodied, felt intentionality of the space between persons, setting the general context for triune consciousness.

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