Husserl Essays

  • Phenomenology by Edmund Husserl

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    Phenomenology, by Edmund Husserl appears the text From Plato To Derrida, this paper is a overview of his life and works. In this paper I hope to better explain his theory on phenomenology and to share my thoughts on his writing. Edmund Husserl was born April 8, 1859, into a Jewish family in the town of Prossnitz in Moravia, then a part of the Austrian Empire. Although there was a Jewish technical school in the town, Edmund's father, a clothing merchant, had the means and the inclination to send

  • Husserl, Carnap, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein

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    Husserl, Carnap, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein ABSTRACT: Phenomenology and logical positivism both subscribed to an empirical-verifiability criterion of mental or linguistic meaning. The acceptance of this criterion confronted them with the same problem: how to understand the Other as a subject with his own experience, if the existence and nature of the Other's experiences cannot be verified. Husserl tackled this problem in the Cartesian Meditations, but he could not reconcile the verifiability

  • Husserl y la Crisis de la Cultura

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    Husserl y la Crisis de la Cultura ABSTRACT: The topic of the crisis of culture has been common among philosophers whose thought developed during the beginning of the 20th century, and especially among those who lived through the hard times of the interwar period. Husserl was no exception. I intend in this paper a modest approach to the growth of this subject in the founder of phenomenology. I will attempt to: (1) delimit what Husserl meant by culture; (2) identify the reasons for the crisis

  • Philosophic Principles of Creativity

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    Philosophic Principles of Creativity ABSTRACT: The principle of universal significance of the creative process is promoted in this thesis. The principles of the ecology of creation and of the subject's humanistic orientation of the cognitive and practical activity, will also be investigated. 1. Nowadays the promotion of a new world outlook paradigm of global creativity has a place. The understanding of the nature of creation in the history of philosophy has always been connected with the

  • Identity, Intersubjectivity and Communicative Action

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    the (phenomenologically reduced) realm of, our experiences per se, to distinguish between the flux of constantly changing and interrupted subjective appearances, and the relatively unchanging and continuously existing objects constituted therein. Husserl confirms: ... cognitive acts, more generally, any mental acts, are not isolated particulars, coming or going in the stream of consciousness without any interconnections. As they are ESSENTIALLY related to one another, they display a teleological

  • The Origin of Judgment

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    described as prepredicative or prelinguistic.1 Edmund Husserl pursues within that text a phenomenological elucidation of the origin of judgment in order that he might clarify the essence of the predicative judgment. He does so in the belief that an investigation into the form of prepredicative experience will show it to be the ground of the structure of predicative thought, and thus the origin of general, conceptual thought. From the beginning, Husserl takes the problematic of logic as being two-fold:

  • The Originality of Levinas: Pre-Originally Categorizing the Ego

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    The Originality of Levinas: Pre-Originally Categorizing the Ego ABSTRACT: Levinas depicts a pluralism of subjectivity older than consciousness and self-consciousness. He repudiates Heidegger's notion of solitude in order to explore the implications of the Husserlian pure I outside the subject. A hidden Good constitutes the Other in the self: a diremption not at the expense of the unity of the self. Levinas stands with Nietzsche on the side of life which requires and is capable of no justification

  • How Is Life-World A Transcendental Philosophy

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    and one should not, or need not, attempt to universally rationalize the life-world or search for universal truths unless one has a goal of working in the field of philosophy as a profession. Husserl suggests that humans are possibly only concerned with whatever is in the horizon of the life-world (Husserl 379). That seems to indicate that we humans only pay attention to, and value, possibilities, ideas, states of affairs, and concrete facts that exist within the horizon of the life-world or our

  • Architecture: Prioritizing The Human Experience in Design

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    Northwestern University Press, 1964  Holl, S., 1996. Intertwining (NY: Princeton Architectural Press).  Holl, S., 2000. Parallax (Basel: Birkhäuser).  Moran, D., 2000. Introduction to Phenomenology (London: Routledge).  Moran, D., 2005. Edmund Husserl: Founder of Phenomenology (Cambridge: Polity Press).  Norberg-Schulz, C., 2000. Architecture: Presence, Language, Place (Milan: Akir).

  • The Western Subjectivity Thought

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    puts forward his theory of the subjectivity of human being within the framework of his mind-body dualism, his conception of the subjectivity of human being as such can not possibly contain any further and deeper intention. They are Leibniz, Kant and Husserl and so on who endow it some further and deeper intention. The monadology of Leibniz not only calls monad as "soul" or "entelechy", and considers the perceptive activity as the essential content of a monad, but also clearly declares that a manod

  • Identity, Perception, Action and Choice in Contemporary and Traditional

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    Identity, Perception, Action and Choice in Contemporary and Traditional "No-Self" Theories ABSTRACT: The ego is traditionally held to be synonymous with individual identity and autonomy, while the mind is widely held to be a necessary basis of cognition and volition, with responsibility following accordingly. However Buddhist epistemology, existential phenomenology and poststructuralism all hold the notion of an independent, subsisting, self-identical subject to be an illusion. This not only raises

  • Husserl's Eidetic Phenomenological Analysis

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    given (Detmer 165). Husserl later comes to doubt the givenness in eidetic phenomenology; these structures and objects of consciousness must have developed throughout history (Detmer 166). This is the process of sedimentation: patterns of understanding and expectations gradually influence later experiences (Zahavi 94). Intentional acts themselves have eidetic structures that are not immediately given; they must be analyzed if the phenomenological project is to continue. A close

  • Understanding Phenomenology

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    This essay will refer only to the three texts given here: M.M.P - Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Primacy of Perception and Its Philosophical Consequences E.H - Edmund Husserl, Pure Phenomenology, Its Method, and Its Field of Investigation M.H - Martin Heidegger, The Fundamental Discoveries of Phenomenology, Its Principle, and the Clarification of Its Name Pure phenomenology takes as given the existence of an intersubjective world(1), ("the totality of perceptible things and the thing of all

  • Heidegger's Reading of Descartes' Dualism

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    Heidegger's Reading of Descartes' Dualism ABSTRACT: The problem of traditional epistemology is the relation of subject to external world. The distinction between subject and object makes possible the distinction between the knower and what is known. Starting with Descartes, the subject is a thinking thing that is not extended, and the object is an extended thing which does not think. Heidegger rejects this distinction between subject and object by arguing that there is no subject distinct from

  • William Faulkner’s Quentin Section: Time Motif

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    William Faulkner’s The Sound and The Fury (1929), focuses on the stream of consciousness narrative technique that is used in his fictional novel. Faulkner uses motifs throughout his novel masterly through time, shadows, order and chaos that bring into focus the consciousness of his characters. These motifs are used continuously as structures, contrasts or literary devices that develop and inform the text’s themes. He focuses on the theme of the corruption of southern aristocratic values, the economy

  • Critical Race Theory: Race As A Factor In Inequity

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    Race as a factor in inequity. Ladson-Billings and Tate (1995) posit that race continues to be a significant factor in determining inequity in the United States. Race matters in society. If we look at high school drop out, suspension, and incarceration rates of men of color in America we see a disproportionate amount of men of color marginalized and profiled by society. This is further compounded by the perception that male faculty of color cannot be educators or at least are not often conceptually

  • Husserl’s Conceptions of Formal Mathematics

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    statement follows from the given axioms, when this statement and these axioms are viewed as actual objects in our reasoning system. 3. Husserl, p. 16 4. Føllesdal, in Hintikka, p. 442 5. Hill, p. 153 6. Husserl, p. xxiii 7. Husserl, p. 161 8. Gödel, p. 385 9. Husserl, p. 163-4 10. Husserl, p. 167-8 11. Husserl, p. 169 12. Husserl, p. 168-9 13. Husserl, p. 136 14. Gödel, p. 385 15. See Zalta’s discussion of Basic Law V. home

  • The Importance Of Phenomenology

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    Either way, Husserl's phenomenological methods continue to be the primary methods in order to study human beings and their consciousness and their experience. Husserl focused primary on their thoughts, imagination and called this their awareness. Based on other general facts it has been shown that the descriptive approach is focusing on the human beings only and not on their experiences in which gives the individual

  • An Essay About Natural Attitude and Preconceptions

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    is always a fundamental aboutness that is associated with our consciousness perceiving the outside world. Husserl borrowed or rather developed this idea from his teacher Franz Brentano, who professed the concept of ‘Intentional Inexistence’. But empiricism doesn’t relate to this concept of intentionality. Empiricists subscribe to the concept of ‘indirect realism’. Through phenomenology, Husserl tried to overcome all shortcomings of empiricism and provide a comprehensive understanding of mind and experience

  • Critical Analysis Of Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason

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    Husserl dubbed his famous transcendental phenomenology as the “new, twentieth century Cartesianism” and quoted Descartes on the insistence that the only fruitful renaissance is considered as one that reawakens. Husserl discussed Descartes in almost all his published works during his mature period. How can people characterize the Cartesianism that is found on Husserl’s Cartesian meditations? One recent scholar made the argument that Husserl derived one idea from Descartes