Synthesis and Intentional Objectivity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Nathan Rotenstreich

   Pages 1-2

3. Sensuality and Ideation

   • Nathan Rotenstreich

   Pages 3-23

4. Conditions and Foundations

   • Nathan Rotenstreich

   Pages 25-39

5. From Ideation to Constitution

   • Nathan Rotenstreich

   Pages 41-58

6. Fundamental Data and Their Exposition

   • Nathan Rotenstreich

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7. From Exposition to Phenomenological Insight

   • Nathan Rotenstreich

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8. The Beginning and the Goal

   • Nathan Rotenstreich

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9. Science and Philosophy

   • Nathan Rotenstreich

   Pages 117-127

10. Postscript

    • Nathan Rotenstreich

    Pages 129-130

11. Back Matter

    Pages 131-136

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We shall be concemed in the following pages with some issues common to the systems of both Kant and Husserl. Given the structured nature of philosophical systems, however, the topics cannot be isolated from the systems in which they function, imbuing them in each case with a specific direction. An examination of the basic concept of Anschauung will indicate the difference between the two systems. To be sure, Anschauung points in both to the visual aspect of knowledge, an element inherent in the classical concept of theoria, which is related to the word horao, to see. In Kant, however, the visual aspect is not the highest component of cognition, since it is related to sensuality. Anschauung belongs to the synthesis and not the summit of knowledge. It is given before thinking, and is present in the ongoing search for relations between data. In Kant's understanding, pure reason can be related to data only through the medium of understanding. In this sense, we could say that Anschauung, being a variation of Schau, is that which can be perceived with the eyes. In Kant's system, it points to the presence of that which is given and thus to reception, whereas knowledge proper is a synthesis of reception and spontaneity .

• Edmund Husserl
• Immanuel Kant
• concept
• interpret
• issue
• knowledge
• phenomenology
• philosophy

• The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

  Nathan Rotenstreich

Nathan Rotenstreich, 1914-1993, was Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was the Rector of this University and the Vice President of the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities.
Some of his well known essays are: Between Past and Present, Spirit and Man, Tradition and Reality, and Jewish Philosophy in Modern Times. Together with S.H. Bergman he translated Kant's three Critiques into Hebrew.

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