HUSSERL - MAN

<BODY> <CENTER><FONT SIZE=5><B><FONT SIZE=6>HUSSERL</FONT><BR> THE PHENOMENOLOGIST</B></FONT></CENTER><P> <FONT SIZE=4><B>Man</B></FONT><P> <FONT SIZE=4><B>CRISIS</B></FONT><BR> For Husserl, <A HREF="../t03/g038.html" TARGET="_top">phenomenology</A> was more than an academic exercise. For him, the dominance of naturalism and science had placed the Western world in a state of intellectual crisis. Man had lost all faith in the possibility of rational certainty, leaving him vulnerable to rising fascism and its appeal to irrationalism. Intellectual crisis had resulted in political and social crisis. Modern science had forgotten its roots in the lived experience of our human life-world. What are considered neutral facts are really no more than abstractions divorced from their original genesis.<P> <FONT SIZE=4><B>LIFE-WORLD</B></FONT><BR> The "objective" truths of science must be recognized as grounded in the living acts of human consciousness. Man and the world are first and foremost in relation. It is only at the subsequent, reflective level of logic that we divide them into separate entities. Where science claims to establish facts based on empirical observation, phenomenology seeks to describe the structures of the "life world" (Lebenswelt), the world as it is lived and experienced by conscious subjects. <BR clear=left><BR> <HR width=100%> <A HREF="http://www.creatorix.com.au"><IMG SRC="../creatorix.gif" WIDTH="85" HEIGHT="40" BORDER="0" ALT="Creatorix" align=right></A> </BODY>