Abstract: | In the paper I present the Husserl’s idea of philosophy as a strict science
(Philosophie als strenge Wissenschaft) which he understood as universal and ultimately
justified knowledge, free from any prejudices (Vorurteile) coming from naturalistic
attitude. The prejudice of such an attitude is a thesis of the existence of
the world (Thesis vom Sein der Welt). By complying with this thesis unreflectively,
one becomes immersed in the world, which means that in the natural attitude
the transcendental character of subjectivity remains unconscious and anonymous.
This anonymity might be razed by transcendental reduction (transzendentale
Reduktion), which aims at getting the transcendental ego rid of self-forgetting
(Selbstvergessenheit). The subjectivity revealed this way is still, in its deepest
aspects, anonymous as ultimately functioning ego (das letztfungierende Ich), for
being an epistemological absolute, it is a source of reflection and through reflection
it cannot become acknowledged. I discuss some difficulties related to the second type
of anonymity in relation to Husserl’s demand of phenomenology realising the idea of
philosophy as strict a science. |