PHENOMENOLOGY of Husserl

1. Edmund
Husserl

2.  Kant:
 ‘Things in itself cannot be known’
 Time & Place + 12 Categories of Knowledge
 The acquired knowledge is modified. No more the actual one
 Husserl wanted to know the real nature or Essence thing in itself
 What is Phenomenology to Husserl ?
 A philosophical method to discover Phenomena ~ Real
 Phenomenology is nothing but A Priori and intuitive investigation of
Phenomena. (Meditation)
Back-Drop

3. Distortions/Impurities
 Presupposed Biases, Prejudices
Natural Laws Psychological Beliefs
‘Both the impurities are distorting my consciousness’
 Rationalist: Reason, all knowledge is A Priori/Inate
 Empiricist: Sensory Experience/Impressions
 Hegel: Absolute Idea /Dialectic Method
 Kant: Synthetic A Priori Judgement
Absolute Poverty/Presuppositionlessness
 Without any bias, prejudice or presupposition
Phenomenological Reduction/Method
 A method to reduce these distortions
 A Priori investigation of phenomena Meditation
 A process that occurs in two organic moments
o Epoché
o Reduction Proper

4. Epoché
 Bracketing…disconnecting from the external world…..Internal Oriented
Reduction Proper
 Psychological:
 Mental states: Moods, Feelings etc must be reduced to let consciousness
function purely
Eidetic:
 Reduce accidental properties/characteristics
 After Eidetic reduction remains intuitive knowledge not direct sense experience
 This intuition is not happening automatically but in some consciousness the
consciousness that is meditating upon a phenomenon
 Essence is located in a consciousness
 Essence is universal but it is not independent of consciousness
 Essence is neither real nor unreal rather it is Irreal
 Essence and consciousness are corelated
 Still this reduction is incomplete as essence cannot be a property of any
particular or individual consciousness.

5. Transcendental Consciousness:
 Empirical Ego / Consciousness : Soul
 Reduction of Individual Consciousness : Pure Consciousness
Transcendental Consciousness is the base of everything
Bracketing or reduction of Transcendental Consciousness is
impossible
Intentional Consciousness:
 Consciousness is always intentional or directional.
 It directs towards something. E g . Book, table, pen etc