Affirmation of the existence and elucidate the meaning of the world: the circularity in the double preoccupation of Husserl's phenomenology
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Edmund Husserl, Consciousness, World, Epoché, Phenomenological idealismAbstract
This article discusses initially the two implications of the phenomenological epoché, translated by the idea of the "loss" and "gain" of the world. Then it showsthat the question of the meaning of this "loss" and of this "gain" reveals a double preoccupation of Husserl: ensure the assertion of the existence of the world and promote the elucidation of the meaning of the world. The conclusion is that this double preoccupation reveals a kind of circularity: the world is revealed objectively in full sense by means of a method that can’t fail to affirm the existence of the world. This statement presupposes, in turn, a giving of meaning and therefore an originary consciousness.
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