Edmund Husserl a new Approach

Edmund Husserl

A New Approach

• Phenomenology is not so much an answer as it is a new approach to philosophical problems.

Phenomenology

• “Phenomenology focused its attention on “being” itself, on the lived world of human experience, on its unceasing ambiguity, its ever-deepening complexity.”

Phenomenological Reduction

• “This method brackets experience and describes it while suspending all presuppositions and assumptions normally made about the experience.”

What is Consciousness?

• “It is this intentionality that distinguishes consciousness from everything else in the universe.”

Pure Phenomenology

• Husserl thinks that radical reflection and radical questioning are necessary for beginning philosophy and entering into what he calls pure of transcendental phenomenology.

What Is The Self?

• The self, the mental individual from which all mental acts issue, is only presented to us indirectly, like a perceptual object.”

Intersubjectivity

• If the East is ahead in consciousness studies, then the West is ahead in intersubjective studies. From an integral perspective we need both.

Philosophy to Contemplation

• “By deeply, profoundly, inquiring into the Witness of all knowledge, this specific philosophical inquiry opens up onto contemplative awareness.”