Consciousness and world are simultaneous in authentic reflection.

Evidence

Education as the practice of freedom—as opposed to education as the practice of domination—denies that man is abstract, isolated, independent, and unattached to the world; it also denies that the world exists as a reality apart from people. Authentic reflection considers neither abstract man nor the world without people, but people in their relations with the world. In these relations consciousness and world are simultaneous: consciousness neither precedes the world nor follows it. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 235

Categorization

• XREF: Freire’s relational ontology aligns with the reader’s interest in designing learning situations — the ‘people in their relations with the world’ framing is the unit of redesign. — connects to: The reflecting self remains engaged, historical, and worldly rather than detached; Honest thought today demands being simultaneously inside and outside its object — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 85; Consciousness intertwines with the world like crossed hands — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 742 (+1 more)