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
I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.
All philosophical disciplines are rooted in pure phenomenology, through whose development, and through it alone, they obtain their proper force.
Psychology, on the other hand, is science of psychic Nature and, therefore, of consciousness as Nature or as real event in the spatiotemporal world.
A new fundamental science, pure phenomenology, has developed within philosophy: This is a science of a thoroughly new type and endless scope.
What phenomenology wants, in all these investigations, is to establish what admits of being stated with the universal validity of theory.
I must achieve internal consistency.
To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
All perception is a gamble.
Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.
All consciousness is consciousness of something
Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
Experience by itself is not science.