Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 16:30:52 -0500
From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: Husserl Encounter


I just finished the First Cartesian Meditation.  I felt moved to the 
point where I could experience the thrill of what Husserl was 
describing.  That's one of the ways philosophy gets to me (maybe more 
than just one of the ways): showing me, in the profound 
phenomenological sense, what it feels like to undergo such thinking. 
I experience the thrill for myself.  It's almost as if the content 
didn't matter (formale Anziege?):  What's important is the thrill of 
imagining an experience in thinking you've never had before.  You 
experience this way of thinking for yourself, even though it might 
not precisely be what the writer had in mind.  What's more, Husserl's 
theme in this Meditation, which he re-iterates over and over again, 
is something like:  "Everything that makes a philosophical beginning 
possible we must acquire by ourselves."

I'm   feeling that Heidgger got his idea of what it means to teach 
philosophy(which is very close to what it means to do it) from 
Husserl.

Best regards,

Allen


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