psychologizing the eidetic

Hi all. So this is post is mostly just a way of my asking what everyone’s take on Husserl’s discussion of “psychologizing the eidetic” or “psychologizing the essence” is all about.

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a problem with Husserlian universality

We asked today ‘what is any consciousness whatever’? This ‘any … whatever’ conception of universality has appeared in Husserl again and again, and in asking ‘what is any consciousness whatever?’, the question ‘what is any … whatever?’ is certainly immanent. Or better:

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Essences?

I asked in class the major difference between Husserl’s idea of matters of fact, perception, and essences and Plato’s Theory of Forms. Prof. Drabinski answered as: Plato thought of the Essence of a Form as existent somewhere in the Universe while Husserl does not (Phenomenology is not metaphysical). So my question is: how does Husserl [...]

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Fact and Essence

Class on 12 September … Today we started off by reinforcing the idea of phenomenology as a method, and not a series of dogmatic ontological assumptions. As merely a method, phenomenology deprives itself of any necessary content, and assumes the capability of discussing any and all experience from its particular formal standpoint.

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