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Single Idea 22207

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

Full Idea

In relation to every thesis we can use this peculiar epoché (the phenomenon of 'bracketing' or 'disconnecting'), a certain refraining from judgment which is compatible with the unshaken and unshakable because self-evidencing conviction of Truth.

Gist of Idea

Epoché or 'bracketing' is refraining from judgement, even when some truths are certain

Source

Edmund Husserl (Ideas: intro to pure phenomenology [1913], II.1.031)

Book Ref

Husserl,Edmund: 'Ideas: general introduction to pure phenomenology', ed/tr. Boyce Gibson,W [Routledge 2012], p.58

A Reaction

This is the crucial first step of Phenomenology. It seems to me that it is best described as 'methodological scepticism'. People actually practise it all the time, while they focus on some experience, while trying to forget preconceptions.

Related Idea

Idea 22205 Feelings of self-evidence (and necessity) are just the inventions of theory [Husserl]

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]