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Single Idea 22204

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 2. Phenomenology ]

Full Idea

Where other philosophers ...start from unclarified, ungrounded preconceptions, we start out from that which antedates all standpoints: from the totality of the intuitively self-given which is prior to any theorising reflexion.

Gist of Idea

Start philosophising with no preconceptions, from the intuitively non-theoretical self-given

Source

Edmund Husserl (Ideas: intro to pure phenomenology [1913], I.2.020)

Book Ref

Husserl,Edmund: 'Ideas: general introduction to pure phenomenology', ed/tr. Boyce Gibson,W [Routledge 2012], p.38

A Reaction

This is the great aim of Phenomenology, which is obviously inspired by Hegel's similar desire to start from nothing. Hegel starts from a concept ('nothing'), but Husserl starts from raw experience. I suspect both approaches are idle dreams.

The 23 ideas with the same theme [approaching wisdom by examining human experience]:

22218 There can only be a science of fluctuating consciousness if it focuses on stable essences [Husserl, by Bernet]
22217 Phenomenology aims to validate objects, on the basis of intentional intuitive experience [Husserl, by Bernet]
22219 Husserl saw transcendental phenomenology as idealist, in its construction of objects [Husserl, by Bernet]
22216 Phenomenology studies different types of correlation between consciousness and its objects [Husserl, by Bernet]
22204 Start philosophising with no preconceptions, from the intuitively non-theoretical self-given [Husserl]
22207 Epoché or 'bracketing' is refraining from judgement, even when some truths are certain [Husserl]
22208 'Bracketing' means no judgements at all about spatio-temporal existence [Husserl]
22210 After everything is bracketed, consciousness still has a unique being of its own [Husserl]
22215 Phenomenology describes consciousness, in the light of pure experiences [Husserl]
21217 Phenomenology needs absolute reflection, without presuppositions [Husserl]
15570 Phenomenology is the science of essences - necessary universal structures for art, representation etc. [Husserl, by Polt]
7614 Bracketing subtracts entailments about external reality from beliefs [Husserl, by Putnam]
6893 Phenomenology aims to describe experience directly, rather than by its origins or causes [Husserl, by Mautner]
3348 If phenomenology is deprived of the synthetic a priori, it is reduced to literature [Benardete,JA on Husserl]
22223 Being-in-the-world is projection to possibilities, thrownness among them, and fallenness within them [Heidegger, by Caputo]
22158 Pheomenology seeks things themselves, without empty theories, problems and concepts [Heidegger]
7113 Phenomenology assumes that all consciousness is of something [Sartre]
8247 Phenomenology needs art as logic needs science [Deleuze/Guattari]
20448 Phenomenology uncovers and redescribes the pre-theoretical layer of life [Critchley]
6846 Phenomenology is a technique of redescription which clarifies our social world [Critchley]
20744 Phenomenologists say all experience is about something and is directed [Aho]
21237 Phenomenology begins from the immediate, rather than from axioms and theories [Bakewell]
21238 Later phenomenologists tried hard to incorporate social relationships [Bakewell]