Abstrakt: | In analogy to Kant, Husserl argues that existence is not a real predicate, that
is to say that the existence of an object consists in not its reference to objective
reality but rather in the specific manner of givenness in consciousness. As a consequence,
the concept of existence is understood with regard to the different
ways of presentation (Gegenwärtigung) of reality, and it can only be clarified in
a pure phenomenological description of intuitive modes of its givenness. The
aim of phenomenological investigation is to clarify the sense of real existence
of transcendent things, in particular, the legitimacy of the general thesis of the
natural attitude as universal belief in which is realized the existence of the world.
This clarification presupposes the constituting consciousness as an original place
of the demonstration of the sense of the existence so that the existence of the
transcendent things always refers to the actually experiencing consciousness in
which such things are given. Thus, the existence of the real world is relative to
the existence of world-constituting consciousness that is understood as a sphere
of absolute self-givenness because it does not refer in its existence to a higher
consciousness in which it would be given. This implies that the existence of the
real world has presumptive character, as it is a correlate of the general thesis of the
natural attitude, which requires the confirmation in the further course of the experience,
whereas the actually experiencing consciousness is an absolute sphere
of being that is given in apodictic evidence and it posits itself through itself in
existence. |