Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 05:38:47 +0800 Subject: Re: Being and Time-section 2 From: Malcolm Riddoch <riddoch-AT-central.murdoch.edu.au> On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 11:53 PM, Michael Eldred wrote: > I like that formulation:"...it's the analyst's own lived experience of > phenomena that's in > question." > It's not like in the social sciences, where observations have to be > made, > data gathered and statistically analyzed. > > Michael No, unless you're doing something with an ethnological bias to it I guess. Phenomenology is directly related to empirical method in that Husserl wanted to observe the regularities of understanding belonging to the objective facts uncovered by the analyst. Husserl sets this up in his Prolegomena, and specifically in relation to Wundt's late 19th century empirical psychology, with whom Husserl studied for a time. Heidegger notes Husserl's 'phenomenological empiricism' in BT, and in the LI this involves something of a 'step back' from empirical analytic thinking in that: "there must be ideal elements and laws even in the field of empirical thinking, in the sphere of probabilities. In these the possibility of empirical science in general, of the probable knowledge of the real, has its a priori basis" (Husserl, LI vol I, p. 247/257). An analysis of empirical thinking will necessarily entail, for Husserl, an immanent description of the phenomena that are given to the empiricist and that are theorized as subjective or objective facts: "Facts are originally 'given' to us only in the sense of being perceived (and likewise in the sense of being remembered). In perception things and events themselves putatively confront us, seen and grasped, so to say, without intervening partition. And what we see before us, we utter in judgements of perception: these are the immediate 'given facts' of science" (Husserl, LI vol I, p. 246-247/256). It's an analysis of analysis, and it leads to constant questioning as a method, the critical dismantling of traditional subject/object philosophies, and the notion of originary temporality as a fundamental, constitutive, ontological structure of human understanding. I think it's where Heidegger gets his wonderfully positive scientific focus and style in this early period of his. Cheers, Malcolm PS - How's things in Deutschland Michael? Australia is an increasingly reactive inward looking xenophobic place to be, and the blatant hypocrisy and apathy of politicians and mainstream voters are still amazing me even after 7 years conservative rule. The current estimates for this insane war of conquest in Iraq are about $AUS 1 billion which is going to come out of public welfare, health and education as usual, which means yet another round of severe cuts and corporatisation of the universities. Pity there are no Heideggerean business studies programs I could teach in, as it is I'm an electronic arts lecturer at the moment... leaves me time to write though. --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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