The Muppets explain Phenomenology

[Bernard]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVGAxMo-kiw&feature=kp

[WanderingLands]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVGAxMo-kiw&feature=kp

Deep philosophy describing the modern world of the absurd.

[Impenitent]

now the question is: who's pulling the strings?

-Imp

[WanderingLands]

now the question is: who's pulling the strings?

-Imp

Who knows. It may be the number of the beast infecting their minds, but then again, who would control the number of the beast, or the beast for that matter?



See the strings up close.

[Ginkgo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVGAxMo-kiw&feature=kp

Deep philosophy describing the modern world of the absurd.

Phenomenology is actually more of a prescriptive philosophy than descriptive philosophy. Just ask Husserl.

[Arising_uk]

I agree. Whilst brilliant and funny the clip is incorrect with respect to Phenomenology.

[Bernard]

Hah! Well observed even if pedantic of you. Doesn't the humour the music and visuals have an overall prescriptive effect though? One is certainly not left with much descriptive meat. The residue I get is what Husserl would advocate: cut through the words and you get simple reality... Which is of course never simple.

[Ginkgo]

Hah! Well observed even if pedantic of you. Doesn't the humour the music and visuals have an overall prescriptive effect though? One is certainly not left with much descriptive meat. The residue I get is what Husserl would advocate: cut through the words and you get simple reality... Which is of course never simple.

I am not saying that phenomenology has no descriptive aspect to it, but it is clear it is a prescription of what we should do. In the case of Husserl we are encouraged to perform a 'phenomenological reduction' of consciousness in order to find out what is intuitively certain when it comes to experience.

[Bernard]

I think the creator of the clip may have known well that phenomenology was not an explanatory proposition. The title of the clip was, I think, tongue in cheek; the whole thing being then perforce a satirical way of applying the phenomenological method. Am I way out of the ballpark here?

[Bernard]

And Germany should never have dropped Husserl for the Munich World Cup. They missed is his method and intentionality up front

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=92vV3QGagck