PHL 513 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Presupposition, Edmund Husserl
26 Jan 2017
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Movement that was dominant in germany and france for 1st fifty years of 20th century. Descarte introduced a radical shift in philosophical shift and phenomenology is broken off of that shift. The subject turning towards itself as the primary locus in order to get the ball rolling = You must ask where do i start? . We need to start with the things that are most basic and ensure that every move we make stays true to the basic things. We want to start without presupposing anything and taking for granted anything as true. If you presume something as true, philosophy has stopped you must start from the ground up! Without this, you are taking something for granted. It has to be evident to you that you are engaged with the thing itself and no second hand trust. Descartes would argue that my senses have failed me once, so one cannot trust something that has deceived you even once.
