Title: The Subject as Moral Person. On Husserl’s Late Reflections Concerning the Concept of Personhood
Abstract: Doing philosophy is, for Husserl, motivated from deeply ethical roots. An explication of the rich concept of personhood in Husserl's mature phase can give a more adequate picture of Husserl's view of the task of philosophy and make comprehensible his phenomenological ethics and, more broadly, his phenomenological anthropology. It is Husserl's main interest to ground a moral life in the world. This is, for him, philosophy's true and only purpose. To this day, the image of Husserl is dominated by that of Husserl the mathematician, the rigorous scientist, the philosopher with the ideal of the non-participating observer. This chapter is an attempt to help rectify these indeed simplifying, if not misleading, conceptions. Husserl's later philosophy as centered around the concept of the moral person, as concerns the big picture, is only comprehensible as self-critique of his earlier ethics, dubbed appropriately pre-war by Ullrich Melle. Keywords:Husserl; moral person; personhood; phenomenological ethics
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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