Human Freedom—A Husserlian Perspective

• Authors: Lohmar Dieter
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

I would like to discuss—on the basis of a phenomenological argumentation—the different meanings of our everyday claim that we are free in our actions and decisions. First, I reject deterministic theories in the naturalistic approach by using Husserl’s ar-gument that the subsumtion of human decisions under the causal paradigm is simply an unjustified extension of a methodical idealization in the framework of naturalization. Then I argue for Husserl’s understanding that humans are generally subjects under a manifold of effective influences but they are nevertheless free. In the end some as-pects of our freedom are delineated.

Keywords

EN

Freedom; determinism; everyday causality; naturalistic and personalistic attitude

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 11-24

Contributors

author

Lohmar Dieter

• University of Cologne, Husserl-Archive, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, D-50923 Cologne, Germany