Experience and Reason

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-X

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2. Introductory

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   Pages 1-7

3. The Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl

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   Pages 8-18

4. Husserl’s Appreciation and Understanding of Hume

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   Pages 19-28

5. The Theory of the “Generalthesis der Natürlichen Einstellung” (Husserl) and the System of the “Vulgar Consciousness” (Hume)

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   Pages 29-36

6. The Concept of Reduction

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   Pages 37-48

7. The Concept of Constitution and Hume’s Imagination

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   Pages 49-63

8. The Concept of the “Lebens Welt” and the “External World” of Hume

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   Pages 64-77

9. The Science of Transcendental Subjectivity and of Human Nature

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   Pages 78-93

10. Experience

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    Pages 94-110

11. Reason

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    Pages 111-126

12. Experience and Reason

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    Pages 127-137

13. Towards a Theory of “Comprehensive, Critical and Reflective Experience”

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    Pages 138-147

14. Back Matter

    Pages 148-153

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In this work the author has tried to present a brief exposition of the phenomenology of HusserI. In doing this, he had in mind a two-fold purpose. He wanted on the one hand to give a critical exposition, interpretation and appreciation of the most leading concepts of HusserI­ ian phenomenology. On the other hand, he tried to show that a true comprehensive understanding of HusserI's phenomenology culminates in his teaching of experience and reason. It is the strong conviction of the author that the central-most teaching of HusserI's phenomenology is the discovery of the "noetic­ noematic" correlativity. In the reduced realm of "constituting­ intentionality," the distinction between reason and experience seems to vanish, and these two concepts become interchangeable terms. The present study suffers from one great limitation, and this must be made clear right here in order to avoid any misconception about the author's intentions. The author has not discussed the other important theories of experience and reason. He has undertaken the humble task of giving an account of HusserI's phenomenology of experience and reason. The bringing in of Hume serves, as would be clear in the course of the book, a two-fold purpose. It tries on the one hand to show the pro­ grammatic similarity between the philosophies of these two philoso­ phers. On the other hand, it implicitly maintains that the philosophical continuity from Hume to HusserI runs not so much via Kant, but rather via Meinong, Brentano, A venarius, James and so forth.

• David Hume
• Edmund Husserl
• Lebenswelt
• concept
• phenomenology
• philosophy

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