How Aristotle and Husserl differ on first philosophy

Robert Sokolowski

pp. 1-28

in: Roland Breeur, Ullrich Melle (eds), Life, subjectivity and art, Berlin, Springer, 2012

Abstract

Many of Rudolf Bernet's essays juxtapose Husserl's thought with that of other contemporary writers. Such juxtaposition enables us to better understand each of the parties, but it also brings us more adequately to the things themselves, to the topic that is at issue in both of them. If we successfully put two such things together, we get a third that is distinct from each but sheds light on both. For my contribution to this volume, I would like to follow Bernet's example and put Husserl in contact, not with a contemporary thinker, but with Aristotle, and to do so on the topic of first philosophy.

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund

Bernet Rudolf

Aristoteles