“At least for the Husserl of the Ideas, Formal and Transcendental Logic, and Cartesian Meditations, phenomenology is the science of pure essences, and of the transcendental subjectivity in which these essences are constituted.”
“Husserl’s phenomenology is rooted in Plato, Kant, and modern mathematics. His essences are mathematical in the sense of possessing no teleological order, no hierarchical structure which is the presence of divine totality in and through the phenomena.”
“Each essence is self-identical, or obedient to the laws of finite (nondialectical) logic. If I may so put it, each essence is an absolute expression of the Absolute, and not a dialectical element in the gradually to be completed self-exhibition of a totally visible Absolute.”
“Hegel’s logos is intended as a complete account of the phenomena,
whereas for Husserl, this is impossible. Phenomenology is for Husserl a method with an infinite subject matter.”
whereas for Husserl, this is impossible. Phenomenology is for Husserl a method with an infinite subject matter.”
“The logos is epistemology, and therefore, from a Hegelian perspective, detached or alienated from the essences it describes.”
“We see here a vestige of the old
Aristotelian situation. As mind actualizes in form, it disappears.”
Aristotelian situation. As mind actualizes in form, it disappears.”
“As mind attempts to reflect upon itself apart from its formal actualizations, it is totally empty of content, a mere
abstract continuum of flow which is inexplicably conscious or capable of becoming conscious in the noetic act.”
abstract continuum of flow which is inexplicably conscious or capable of becoming conscious in the noetic act.”
“In sum, Platonic Ideas are stripped of their hierarchical or teleological attributes, transformed into Aristotelian forms which actualize in the Kantian transcendental ego instead of the Aristotelian or Greek νοῦς.”
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