Phenomenology as a critique of politics

Abstract

Where empiricism was deficient was any internal connection between the object and the act which it triggers off. What intellectualism lacks is contingency in the occasions of thought for any phenomenon to appeal compellingly to it. ?Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of perception Common sense [sensus communis] is judgment without reflection, shared by an en? tire class, an entire people, an entire nation, or the entire human race. ?Giambattista Vico, The new science