The universal as "what is in common"

comments on the proton-pseudos in Husserl's doctrine of the intuition of essence

Rochus Sowa

pp. 525-557

in: Carlo Ierna, Hanne Jacobs, Filip Mattens (eds), Philosophy, phenomenology, sciences, Berlin, Springer, 2010

Abstract

Referring to the captious expressions ""mental' object" and ""immanent' object" in §90 of Ideas I, Husserl says: "Here denominations already evince interpretations, and often quite false ones."¹ In what follows, I would like to show that denominations also evince false, and sometimes even "quite false" interpretations especially concerning the discourse of "the universal" (das Allgemeine).

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund