The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.

Quote by Edmund Husserl

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To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

Experience by itself is not science.

Experience by itself is not science.

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical...

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical...

It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness...

It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness...

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of...

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of...

Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects...

Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects...

Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness...

Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness...

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the...

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the...

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of...

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of...

Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make...

Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make...

What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its...

What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its...

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind...

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind...

Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon,...

Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon,...

At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally,...

At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally,...

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high...

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high...

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in...

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in...

The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that...

The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that...