Ponty also claims that “ Scientific points of view, according to which my existence is a moment of the world’, are always both naïve and at the same time dishonest, because they take for granted, without explicitly mentioning it, the other point of view, namely that of consciousness, through which from the outset a world forms itself round me and begins to exist for me†(277). The explicitness phenomenology gives to understanding is key in communicating with the other. The explicitness of the description reveals the perspective and the existence of the one sharing. It would be unethical for one to assume that they know what the other has experienced. If one communicates on the basis of this assumption unethical discourse occurs. BUT THEN AGAIN AREN"T WE ALL ACTING ON THE BASIS OF ASSUMPTIONS? Even if the discourse is not specifically about the person, it is still tainted with dishonesty that could have been prevented through inquiry into the true phenomenological experience of the other individual.
So is it through our consciousness that the world begins to exist and I am aware that it exists around me; or does our awareness of an exterior world create an awareness or the existence of our consciousness?