Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 13:04:21 +0800
From: Malcolm Riddoch <riddoch-AT-central.murdoch.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Heidegger on Husserl


>>I can't agree with the Husserl = cartesian subjectivity line. There's a
>>section in the Logical Investigations where Husserl explicitly takes up the
>>critique of Cartesianism and specifically questions the self-evidence of
>>the ego as a ground (as subjectum or hypokeimenon) for philosophical
>>reflection.
>>Malcolm
>>
>
>
>Just for my own records, where in LI is this?
>Thanks -
>David

ummm...4th investigation i think...Husserl discusses the difference between
the phenomenological and the empirical ego where the "ego in the sense of
common discourse is an empirical object ... the ego remains an individual,
thinglike object" (LI vol 2, trans. Findlay, p. 541/353). Opposed to this
the phenomenologically reduced ego is a complex unity of experience itself,
and as such it is "therefore nothing peculiar, floating above many
experiences: it is simply identical with their own interconnected unity"
(p. 541/353). As concerns the Cogito, ergo sum, "what here passes as ego
cannot be the empirical ego.... In the judgement 'I am' self-evidence
attaches to a certain central kernel of our empirical ego-notion which is
not bounded by a perfectly clear concept" (p. 543-544/356). It's this
unquestioned Cartesian kernel that Husserl atttempts to analyse in terms of
intentional process and inner time consciousness.

Malcolm




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