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Reflections on the role of phenomenology as an instrument of critique

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Sellmer S.

ARGUMENT: Biannual Philosophical Journal

2014

vol. 4

issue 1

35-42

The present paper aims at showing that the phenomenological method is a crucial methodological element of every research that is based on the interpretation of utterances or texts based on experiences, like religious studies. Following the neophenomenological school, the notion of “phenomenon” is understood in a radically relative way: “A phenomenon for a person at a given point of time is a state of affairs for which this person cannot — in spite of trying to vary the presuppositions she makes as much as possible — withdraw the belief that it is a fact” (Schmitz, 2003: 1). Starting from this notion, phenomenology may fruitfully criticise two common strategies: reduction and construction. The first one tries to reduce experiences to allegedly more fundamental processes like electrical impulses in neural nets. Here the phenomenologist must object that in doing so without preceding phenomenological analysis the reductionist will lose large parts of potentially important information. As to the second strategy, constructions — in the sense of presuppositions, ready-made concepts etc. — are present in all texts that are meant to express an experience. In order to describe the underlying experience more adequately, the phenomenological researcher has to remove as many constructions as possible. In this way she does not only produce a description that is ”closer” to the experience (though she can never hope to fully grasp it), but she also paves the way for comparison and dialogue across religions and cultures.

Phenomenology and the problem of the “in itself” of an object

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Łaciak P.

Diametros

2019

vol. 16

issue 62

18-32

The author presents his own interpretation of the phenomenological puzzle of the “in itself” of a real object and the world itself. The solution to this puzzle is of decisive importance for a proper understanding of transcendental phenomenology. According to Husserl, a transcendent object is “in itself” with reference to factual experience because its esse does not resolve itself into its percipi and it can exist even if it is not in fact experienced. However, the “in itself” of a real object does not mean its existence outside of all possible modes of givenness in consciousness, but is rather an ideal unity given in the infinite multiplicity of actual and possible appearances of the same determinable X. All real objects are units of sense, but sense does not penetrate the object in an infinite number of its manifestations. As a consequence, the inexhaustible X as a bearer of the identity of an object contains a surplus which goes beyond the sense. The main thesis of the paper is that the “in itself” of a transcendent object and the world corresponds with the pure X and its surplus exceeds the noematic senses.

Autor prezentuje własną interpretację fenomenologicznej zagadki „w sobie” przedmiotu rzeczywistego i samego świata. Rozwiązanie tej zagadki ma rozstrzygające znaczenie dla właściwego zrozumienia fenomenologii transcendentalnej. Według Husserla, rzecz transcendentna jest „w sobie” w odniesieniu do faktycznego doświadczenia, ponieważ jej esse nie rozpływa się w percipi i może istnieć nawet wtedy, gdy nie jest faktycznie doświadczana. „W sobie” przedmiotu realnego nie oznacza jednak jego istnienia poza wszelkim możliwym sposobem dania w świadomości, ale jest idealną jednością daną w nieskończonej wielości rzeczywistych i możliwych przejawów tego samego dopuszczającego określenia x. Wszystkie przedmioty realne są jednostkami sensu, ale sens nie przenika przedmiotu w nieskończoności jego przejawów, a w konsekwencji niewyczerpywalne x jako nosiciel tożsamości przedmiotu zawiera nadwyżkę wykraczającą poza sens. Zasadnicza teza artykułu brzmi, że „w sobie” rzeczy transcendentnej i świata realnego odpowiada czystemu x i jego nadwyżce przekraczającej sensy noematyczne.

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