Wisik: A Splash of Reality

                                                           Kumusta Ako: How am I in this Time of Pandemic?      The COVID-19 pandemic is still on-going, and various variants of the virus have sprung up over the course of this crisis. Albeit the assurances of healthcare experts on vaccine efficacy and on the weakening status of COVID variants, I still get the feeling that this pandemic is not ending anytime soon. I might sound pessimistic (because honestly, I am) but I still believe that the time will come for this plague’s ending, and all will rejoice. However, as humanity awaits for such euphoric achievement when COVID is over, the traumatic and depressing damage still prevails. With this, certain feelings and emotions are evoked in me which lead me to a realization about existence: existence is chaos .      As I have learned in the different philosophy classes, existence has a lot of connotations. My main understanding of what it means to exist or to be is to be present—that is, to l

Husserl, Heidegger & Existentialism Hubert Dreyfus & Bryan Magee (1987)        On the interview on the Existentialist thoughts of some prominent and influential philosophers of the early 20 th century, we are led to a discussion on Edmund Husserl and his Phenomenology. From the discussion, we are able to: learn about phenomenology; find a critique/reaction of Husserl to the traditional philosophical enterprise (specifically the Cartesian tradition); find a reaction to Husserl from Martin Heidegger with a new understanding on   and its implication on existentialism; and determine the modern repercussions of Husserl’s thoughts. 1. On Phenomenology      Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) was a German philosopher who authored the masterpiece entitled Logical Investigation (1900 [Volume I] and 1901 [Volume II]) and launched a school of philosophy called Phenomenology. Husserl claimed that he found the indubitable certainty that should serve as our unshakable ground for our knowledge of r