| Author Quoted | Herbert Spiegelberg |
| Title Quoted | Phenomenological Movement: a Historical Introduction |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1963/12/27 |
| Imprint | The Hague : Nijhoff. 1960 |
| Quotation | Merleau-Ponty and the phenomenology of man's unfinished business (Herbert Spiegelberg) [The Phenomenological Movement] for whom "projects are loved in ambiguity," in the subject-object gestalt, where the subject does not withdraw into a given clarity of his own, where, on reflection, he can find all the answers or at least all the principles laid out before hand. We start from our "being-inthe-world" and not from pure being and our business is freedom - up to a point: life an existential (not intellectual) project "a polarization of life against a determined-undetermined goal of which it has no explicit idea and which it does not recognize until it achieves it." I like his sage philosophy of ambiguity, more sober and better tempered than Sartre's. |
| Quotation Source | Dancing in the Water of Life: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 5, 1963-1965.; Edited by Robert E. Daggy. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1997, p. 51 |
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