From Phenomenology of Spirituality to Phenomenology of Materiality

Phenomenology of spirituality is considered to be an attempt to promote the study of thought of mind-nature (spirituality) around ancient and modern Chinese and Western civilizations by using the phenomenological method or following the phenomenological spirit. In fact, phenomenology is generally limited to that of spirituality. However, phenomenology of spirituality has its important resources in early modern philosophy, and mainly belongs to later modern philosophy. This is a kind of intentional phenomenology, it is either around pure consciousness or around impure consciousness (bodily consciousness), and therefore there is a distinction between phenomenology of pure spirituality (phenomenology of pure consciousness, phenomenology of pure spirit) and phenomenology of impure spirituality (phenomenology of impure consciousness, phenomenology of impure spirit, phenomenology of body). With the advent of contemporary philosophy, there is a sudden emergence of phenomenology of material (nonintentional phenomenology) and this means the dusk of phenomenology of spirituality and the dawn of phenomenology of materiality. In the process of phenomenological radicalization, the so-called theological shift of phenomenology is simply a pseudo-problem, and there is no phenomenology of divinity at all. Contemporary phenomenology no longer emphasizes man or nature’s spirituality, could not return to their divinity, could only accept their materiality.