The Ethics of Husserl's Phenomenology by Siles i Borràs Joaquim;

Author:Siles i Borràs, Joaquim;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2019-12-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter IV

The Ethical Depth of Phenomenology

Inner Time-Consciousness and the Formal Genesis of Experience

Before we begin to deal with the questions to which Husserl’s notion of the Ur-doxa has led us, and which were formulated at the end of the previous chapter, let us first return to what could be understood as a first explicit attempt to tackle those problems. This attempt is undertaken by Husserl when dealing with the question of time-consciousness, by means of which he explicitly confronts the problem of the genesis of consciousness and constitution.1 The aim of this chapter is to show that the phenomenology of time-consciousness makes manifest the ethical demand for self-grounding that defines phenomenology because it aims to uncover the genesis of the act of reflection that characterizes Husserl’s inquiry. If Chapter III has shown the ethical extent of phenomenology by means of discussing the question of intentionality and its genetic possibility as the framing of intuitive evidence, Chapter IV will define the ethical depth of phenomenology by moving from the intentional lawfulness of the act of consciousness to the temporal genesis that structures and constitutes it. Although on the one hand the inquiry on inner time-consciousness can be regarded as one of Husserl’s first explicit pieces of genetic phenomenology, on the other hand the questions concerning genesis are still treated here in a formal manner.

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