Edmund Husserl
Edmund Husserl
Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl was a German philosopher who established the school of phenomenology. In his early work, he elaborated critiques of historicism and of psychologism in logic based on analyses of intentionality. In his mature work, he sought to develop a systematic foundational science based on the so-called phenomenological reduction. Arguing that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge, Husserl re-defined phenomenology as a transcendental-idealist philosophy. Husserl's thought profoundly influenced the landscape of twentieth-century philosophy and he...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 April 1859
CountryGermany
All consciousness is consciousness of something
To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
Experience by itself is not science.
Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.
Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.
We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
I must achieve internal consistency.
All philosophical disciplines are rooted in pure phenomenology, through whose development, and through it alone, they obtain their proper force.
All perception is a gamble.
Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.
The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.
It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.