PHIL 474 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Edith Stein, Edmund Husserl, Intersubjectivity

• School: McGill University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 474
• Professor: R.Philip Buckley

Document Summary

Tuesday january 19th, 2016: phenomenological reduction, intentionality, husserl"s view of science: First woman to earn a doctorate in philosophy. Was from jewish background but converted to christianity. Also did some work along on (political) philosophy. Phenomenology as understanding inter-subjectivity while husserl more. Difference between body and lived body examined, korper v lieb. Development covering ambiguity and difficulties in science. More technical term for model of phenomenology. Zu den sachen sebst, "leading back to the things themselves". Implies the suspicion that we don"t really have the things in front of us as we think. We need to do some work, apply some method to get it. To are assailed by so many phenomena at once that we don"t even know. Even when we become aware of them in a more direct manner, we often reflect upon them based on suppositions. Phenomenological reduction is about turning away from the phenomena, in order to get at them, a detour.