Husserl’s Ethics and Practical Intentionality

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Husserl’s 20th century phenomenological project requires little introduction, and remains the cornerstone of modern European philosophy. The significance of understanding the place of ethics in this project is thus of paramount importance to the ongoing legacy and study of Phenomenology itself, but also carries the weight to bear the potential to intervene in contemporary ethical debates and research. Ferrarello’s Husserl’s Ethics and Practical Intentionality constitutes one of the major new interventions in this burgeoning field of Husserl scholarship, and offers an unrivaled perspective on the question of ethics in Husserl’s philosophy through a focus on volumes that have as yet not been translated into English. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction 1. Husserl’s Ethics as an A Priori Science 1. Introduction 2. Science 3. Axiology, ethics and a priori Summary 2. Parallelism and Interlacing in Husserl’s Axiology 1. Introduction 2. A reading of the first two paragraphs of the lectures on ethics and value theory 3. Lotze’s idea of parallelism 4. Two-layered parallelism 5. Conclusions Summary 3. Norms, Laws and Necessity 1. Introduction 2. Science, norms and laws 3. Norms and laws 4. Norms, laws and psychologism 5. Categorical imperative 6. Norms and values 7. Normativity as a space of meaning Summary 4. Living Evidence 1. Introduction 2. Evidence in descriptive (1900–13) and transcendental phenomenology (1913–38) 3. ‘Functioning evidence’ in Husserl’s later works 4. Conclusion: The criticism concerning Husserl’s idea of evidence Summary 5. Practical Intentionality 1. Introduction 2. The riddle of transcendence 3. Intentional essence 4. Hyletic or practical intentionality 5. Practical and passive intentionality Summary 6. The Body and the Ethical Agent 1. Introduction 2. Nature and spirit 3. The body 4. Affection, awakening and propagation 5. A synthetic description Summary 7. ‘The Truth of Will’ 1. Introduction 2. Willing 3. From my will to a community Summary 8. Intersubjectivity 1. Introduction 2. Meaning of intentionality from Brentano to Husserl 3. Empathy and the experience of the otherness 4. Intersubjective reduction and the life-world 5. Conclusion Summary 9. Social Ethics, Teleology and Theology 1. Introduction 2. Social ethics 3. Rational and irrational ethics 4. Teleology, theology and intersubjectivity 5. Transcendental humanity and theological psychologism Summary Notes Bibliography Index