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Single Idea 22218

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

Full Idea

How can there be a science of a Heraclitean flux of acts of consciousness? Husserl answers that this is possible only if these acts are described in respect of their invariant or essential structure. This is an 'eidetic' scence of 'pure' psychology.

Gist of Idea

There can only be a science of fluctuating consciousness if it focuses on stable essences

Source

report of Edmund Husserl (Ideas: intro to pure phenomenology [1913]) by Rudolf Bernet - Husserl p.199

Book Ref

'A Companion to Continental Philosophy', ed/tr. Critchley,S/Schroeder,W [Blackwell 1999], p.199

A Reaction

This is his phenomenology in 1913, which Bernet describes as 'static'. Husserl later introduced time with his 'genetic' version of phenomenology, looking at the sources of experience (and then at history). Essentialism seems to be intuitive.

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]