Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology

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Springer Science & Business Media, Nov 11, 2013 - Philosophy - 157 pages
{Sect} 1. Descartes' Meditations as the prototype of philosophical reflection. I have partieular reason for being glad that I may talk about transeendental phenomenology in this, the most venerable abode of Freneh seienee.l Franee's greatest thinker, Rene Deseartes, gave transeendental phenomenology new impulses through his Meditations; their study aeted quite direetly on the transfor mation of an already developing phenomenology into a new kind of transeendental philosophy. Aeeordingly one might almost eall transeendental phenomenology a neo-Cartesianism, even though it is obliged-and preeisely by its radieal development of Cartesian motifs - to rejeet nearly all the well-known doe trinal eontent of the Cartesian philosophy. That being the situation, I ean already be assured of your interest if I start with those motifs in the M editationes de prima philosophia that have, so I believe, an eternal signifieanee and go on to eharaeterize the transformations, and the novel for mations, in whieh the method and problems of transeendental phenomenology originate. Every beginner in philosophy knows the remarkable train of thoughts eontained in the Meditations. Let us reeall its guiding idea. The aim of the Meditations is a eomplete reforming of philosophy into a scienee grounded on an absolute foundation.
 

Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
FIRST MEDITATION THE WAY TO THE TRANSCENDENTAL
7
Differentiations of evidence The philosophical
14
The range covered by apodictic evidence of theIam
22
Necessity of at first excluding problems relating
29
Necessary beginning of both transcen
37
The twosidedness of inquiry into consciousness
39
The peculiar nature of intentional analysis
46
Association as a principle of passive genesis
80
41
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FIFTH MEDITATION UNCOVERING OF THE SPHERE
89
44
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The transcendental ego and selfapperception as
99
46
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The transcendency of the Objective world as
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50
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Actuality as the correlate of evident varification
59
27
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FOURTH MEDITATION DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION
65
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Excursus into eidetic internal psychology
72
ego cogito
75
Pairing as an associatively constitutive component
112
53
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128
59
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The traditional problems of psychological origins
141
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