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
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.
The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of 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.
All consciousness is consciousness of something
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.
To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
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.