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Why the Transcendental?

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The Sense of Things

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In the preceding chapter, a problem arose and a solution was offered. We need, however, to probe deeper and open up another entryway. This opening will allow us to not only justify the results obtained in the last chapter but it will also permit us to address the transcendental.

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  1. 1.

    Edmund Husserl, Erste Philosophie (1923/24). Erster Teil: Kritische Ideen-geschichte, ed. R. Boehm, in Husserliana, vol. 7 (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1956), 208–287, 350–408. Hereafter cited as EP I (volume 1) and EP II (volume 2).

  2. 2.

    EP II, 179.

  3. 3.

    M. Invaldo, Fichte e Leibniz. La comprensione transcendentale della monadologia (Milano: Guerini e Associati, 2000).

  4. 4.

    Edmund Husserl, Zur Phänomenologie der Intersubjektivität. Texte aus dem Nachlass. Zweiter Teil: 1921–1928, ed. I. Kern, in Husserliana 14 (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1973), Beilage XL, 300.

  5. 5.

    Edmund Husserl, Die Krisis der europäischen Wissenschaften und die transzendentale Phänomenologie. Eine Einleitung in die phänomenologische Philosophie. Hrsg. von W. Biemel, in Husserliana, vol. VI, 1976. English translation: Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, trans. D. Carr (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1970), § 24. Hereafter cited C.

  6. 6.

    CM, First Meditation, § 1.

  7. 7.

    C, 90.

  8. 8.

    Ibid.

  9. 9.

    Ibid., 97–98.

  10. 10.

    Ibid., 186.

  11. 11.

    Ideas I, 111.

  12. 12.

    C, 155.

  13. 13.

    Ideas I, 64.

  14. 14.

    C, § 43.

  15. 15.

    Ibid., 177.

  16. 16.

    Ibid., see title of § 48.

  17. 17.

    Ibid., see title of § 53.

  18. 18.

    APS, Part 2, Division 3, Ch. I, §§ 28, 29.

  19. 19.

    APS, Part 2, Division 3, Ch. 2.

  20. 20.

    Edmund Husserl, Erfahrung und Urteil. Untersuchungen zur Genealogie der Logik, Hrsg. Von L. Landgrebe, (Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1985). English translation: Experience and Judgment: Investigations in Genealogy of Logic, Revised and edited by L. Landgrebe, trans. J. S. Churchill, Afterword by L. Eley, (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1973). Hereafter cited as EJ. See, “Affection and Turning-Toward of the Ego. Receptivity as the Lowest Level of the Activity of the Ego”, § 17.

  21. 21.

    EJ, § 24, “The Activity of Explicative Contemplation and the Explicative Synthesis.”

  22. 22.

    Edmund Husserl, Zur Phänomenologie der Intersubjektivität. Texte aus dem Nachlass. Zweiter Teil: 1921–1928, in Husserliana, vol. 14, 41.

  23. 23.

    Edmund Husserl, Zur Phänomenologie der Intersubjektivität. Texte aus dem Nachlass. Dritter Teil: 1929–1935, ed. Iso Kern (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1973), in Husserliana, vol. 15, text no. 34.

  24. 24.

    Edmund Husserl, Phänomenologie und Anthropologie, in Aufsätze und Vorträge (1922–1937), eds. T. Nenon and H.R. Sepp (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1987), 179.

  25. 25.

    Edmund Husserl, Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy, vol. II, trs. R. Rojcewicz and A. Schuwer (Den Haag: Springer, 1990), 61. Hereafter cited as Ideas II.

  26. 26.

    Ibid., 104.

  27. 27.

    Ibid, 165.

  28. 28.

    Angela Ales Bello, “Human World—Animal World: An Interpretation of Instinct in Some Late Husserlian Manuscripts,” in Analecta Husserliana, vol. 68 (Dordrecht: Springer, 2000), 249–254.

  29. 29.

    Ideas II, 195.

  30. 30.

    Ibid., 190.

  31. 31.

    I treat this argument in my essay, “Fenomenologia e metafisica,” in “Seconda Navigazione Annuario di Filosofia 2000—Corpo e anima. Necessità della metafisica” (Milano: Mondadori, 2000), 171–219.

  32. 32.

    Angela Ales Bello, The Divine in Husserl and Other Explorations, trans. Antonio Calcagno, in Analecta Husserliana, vol. 98 (Dordrecht: Springer, 2009).

  33. 33.

    Edmund Husserl, Vorlesungen über Ethik und Wertlehre 1908–1914, ed. U. Melle, in Husserliana, vol. 28 (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1988). For a good commentary on Husserl’s ethics, please refer to Fenomenologia della Ragion Pratica. L’etica di Edmund Husserl, eds. B. Cenci and G. Gigliotti (Napoli: Bibliopolis, 2004).

  34. 34.

    Angela Ales Bello, “Edmund Husserl. Cristo e il cristianesimo. Meditazioni filosofico-religiose,” in Cristo nella filosofia contemporanea, vol. 2 in Il Novecento (San Paolo, Brazil: Cinisello Balsamo, 2002), 11–30.

  35. 35.

    C, 181.

  36. 36.

    Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Die Seele der Pflanzen (Breslau: Otto Borgmeyer Verlag, 1934); Edith Stein, Der Aufbau der menschlichen Person. Vorlesungen zur philosophischen Anthropologie, ed. B. Beckmann-Zöller, in Edith Stein Gensamtausgabe, vol. 14 (Freiburg: Herder, 2004).

  37. 37.

    Ideas II, 103.

  38. 38.

    Ibid., 103–104.

  39. 39.

    Ibid., 104.

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Bello, A.A. (2015). Why the Transcendental?. In: The Sense of Things. Analecta Husserliana, vol 118. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15395-7_2

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