The history of Western philosophy is to a large extent an attempt to provide an answer to the question as to what is fundamental. It is a search for the point of departure from which everything else follows: matter, God, the spirit, the atoms and the void, Platonic Forms, a priori forms of intuition, the subject, Absolute Spirit, elementary moments of consciousness, phenomena, energy, experience, sensations, language, verifiable propositions, scientific data, falsifiable theories, the existence of the being for whom being matters, hermeneutic circles, structures . . . A long list of
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