On the Motives which led Husserl to Transcendental Idealism

Roman Ingarden studied under Husserl before and during the first world war. He belonged to the so-called Gottingen group of Husserl's pupils. Husserl's doctrine was accepted by them and interpreted in a realist vein. Ingarden defended this view all his li

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PHAENOMENOLOGICA COLLECTION FONDEE PAR H. L. VAN BREDA ET PUBLIEE SO US LE PATRONAGE DES CENTRES D'ARCHIVES-HUSSERL

ROMANINGARDEN On the Motives which led Husserl to Transcendental Idealism Translated from the Polish by

ARN6R HANNIBALSSON

Comite de redaction de la collection: President: S. IJsseling (Leuven); Membres: M. Farber (Buffalo), E. Fink (Freiburg i. Br.), L. Landgrebe (Kaln), W. Marx (Freiburg i. Br.), J. N. Mohanty (New York), P. Ricoeur (Paris), E. Straker (KOln) , J. Taminiaux (Louvain), K. H. VolkmannSchluck (KOln). Secretaire: J. Taminiaux

ROMANINGARDEN

On the Motives which led Husserl to Transcendental Idealism Translated trom the Polish by

ARNOR HANNIBALSSON PH. D .

• MARTINUS NI]HOFF

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1975

© I975 by Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands All rights reserved, including the right to translate or to reproduce this book or parts thereof in any form

Translated from the Polish "0 motywach, kt6re doprowadzily Husserla do transcendentalnego idealizmu" from Z badan nad filozofiq wsp61czesnq /DZIELA FILOZOFICZNE, pp. 550-622 © by Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa 1963

ISBN-13: 978-90-247-1751-4 e-ISBN-13: 978-94-010-1689-6 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-010-1689-6

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Translator's Pre/ace

VII

Introduction

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PART I: HUSSERL'S POSITION

The original realist standpoint The concept of philosophy as rigorous science 3. Postulates determining the appropriate method of epistemology 4. The results of the investigations into outer perception and the constitutive analysis of objects of the real world 5. The formal-ontological foundations of the idealist solution 1.

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PART II: CRITICAL REMARKS

Must the concept of philosophy as rigorous science lead to transcendental idealism? 2. The limits of the applicability of the phenomenological reduction 3. Critical remarks on particular results of the analysis of outer perception and the theory of constitution 4. Critical remarks on the formal-ontological sources of the Husserlian idealism I.

Index

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TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE

Roman Ingarden studied under Husserl before and during the first world war. He belonged to the so-called Gottingen group of Husserl's pupils. Husserl's doctrine was accepted by them and interpreted in a realist vein. Ingarden defended this view all his life. He opposed the development of phenomenology towards idealism. A considerable part of Ingarden's great creative effort is dedicated to the construction of a realist phenomenology and thus, according to him, to continuing the erection of the theoretical structure whose foundations were laid by Husserl in his Logical Investigations. From Ingarden's standpoint the question of idealism versus realism was a crucial one. Ingarden published several studies on Husserl. The first one was written in 1918 and the last one was published posthumously. The present essay was printed in Ingarden's book Z badan nad filozofi:twsp61czesn:t- (Inquiries into Contemporary Philosophy 1963) along with a number of other essays on Husserl and his ph