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By Josef Seifert
In an enlightening discussion with Descartes, Kant, Husserl and Gadamer, Professor Seifert argues that the unique concept of phenomenology was once not anything except the primordial perception of philosophy itself, the basis of philosophia perennis. His radical rethinking of the phenomenological procedure leads to a common, objectivist philosophy in direct continuity with Plato, Aristotle and Augustine.
In order to validate the classical declare to understand independent being, the writer defends Husserl's methodological precept "Back to objects themselves" from empiricist and idealist critics, together with the later Husserl, and replies to the arguments of Kant which try to discredit the knowability of items in themselves.
Originally released in 1982, this publication culminates in a phenomenological and important unfolding of the Augustinian cogito, as giving entry to immutable fact approximately useful essences and the genuine life of private being.
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For from its truth it would follow that it is nothing but the chance effect of material processes instead of being dependent on the nature of things. Then there would be no reason, however, to designate one effect of material events as true and its opposite as false, although the opposing theory would be equally the result of purely material causes. This Marxist theory also claims to be true and purports to depend on the nature of the realities which it wishes to explain, not just on certain economic infrastructures.
Indeed, the question of the very essence of the world is undoubtedly bound up with the question of whether the world is contingent or self-explanatory with respect to the question of causality. Many phenomenologists reject any philosophical investigation into causes, either because they mistakenly believe that all causes are as little related to the essence of things as waves are to colors, or because they think that the reality (real existence) presupposed for causal analysis ought to be bracketed in epoche.
9 This example also proves that a phenomenological way of proceeding is not exclusively found in philosophy, but also in disciplines such as the history of art and the history of ideas. (vi) Phenomenology is not restricted to philosophy but is also the appropriate kind of procedure in many other disciplines The maxim 'back to things themselves' does not only address itself to philosophers. , a phenomenological exploration of what these things themselves are is demanded. With greater precision, phenomenology is always called for when the datum in question possesses an essence and intelligibility capable of being grasped in some intuitive knowledge or ot being known mediately (deductively) on the basis of intuitively known premises.