The Development of Husserl’s Ethics

Melle, Ullrich

doi:10.5840/etudphen1991713/144

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“…3 I will not discuss in this paper the changes that the concept of personal values brings about in Husserl's axiology and value theory (cf. Melle 1991;Hart 1992;Melle 2002;Hart 2006;Melle 2007;Peucker 2008;Hart 2009;Loidolt 2012;Drummond 2015a;Crespo 2015;Drummond 2018). These are fundamental and farreaching and need a separate, full-length paper to be analyzed.…”

Section: Egoic Depths Of Feeling and Decisionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Values of love: two forms of infinity characteristic of human persons

Heinämaa

2020

Phenom Cogn Sci

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In his late reflections on values and forms of life from the 1920s and 1930s, Husserl develops the concept of personal value and argues that these values open two kinds of infinities in our lives. On the one hand personal values disclose infinite emotive depths in human individuals while on the other hand they connect human individuals in continuous and progressive chains of care. In order to get at the core of the concept, I will explicate Husserl's discussion of personal values of love by distinguishing between five related features. I demonstrate that values of love (1) are rooted in egoic depts and define who we are as persons, (2) differ from objective values in being absolute and non-comparative, (3) ground vocational lives as organizing principles, (4) are endlessly self-disclosing and self-intensifying, and (5) establish transitive relations of care between human beings. On the basis of my five-partite distinction, I argue that Husserl's concepts of love and value of love reveal the dynamic character of human subjectivity and intersubjectivity.

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Section: Egoic Depths Of Feeling and Decisionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Values of love: two forms of infinity characteristic of human persons

Heinämaa

2020

Phenom Cogn Sci

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“…35 The unique impulse Renaissance philosophy gave to western civilization, he claims, rests on the institution of a simple but revolutionary double idea . It is the invention of a new way of conceiving of the world we 34 See particularly Melle (1991Melle ( , 1998 for a discussion of Husserl's ethical views and the role it takes in his philosophy. 35 The emphasis on Galilei does not figure prominantly in any of Husserl's earlier writings.…”

Section: Husserl On the Technological-scientific Worldviewmentioning

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Heidegger and Husserl on the Technological-Scientific Worldview

Mazijk

2019

Hum Stud

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This paper discusses the relation between the later Husserl and the later Heidegger regarding their criticisms of modern science and technology. It is suggested that the overlap between both accounts is more significant than is standardly acknowledged. The paper first explores Heidegger's ideas about the 'essences' of science and technology, how they allegedly determine the contemporary worldview, conceal our relation to being, and how Heidegger warrants his critical attitude toward this. It then discusses Husserl's philosophical-historical assessment of the 'idea' of modern science, which Husserl believed resulted in the decapitation of philosophical questioning. Although key differences in method, aims, and their proposed solution to the dominance of the technological-scientific worldview should not be overlooked, the paper suggests that core aspects of Heidegger's analyses can be traced back to Husserl.

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“…Th e evolution of Husserl's ethics is accompanied by a shift in his approach to the Categorical Imperative. In 1914 Husserl described "the problem of the Categorical Imperative" as "the most central problem of ethics" (XXVIII, 137), but in 1919/1920 30 See (Melle, 1991(Melle, , 2002Peucker, 2008;Römer, 2011;Rinofner-Kreidl, 2017;Drummond, 2018). 31 See (Brentano, 1978 See,e.g.,XXVIII, Th ree (XXVII, 3-43) of fi ve (XXVII, 3-94) articles were published (1923)(1924).…”

Section: Phenomenology Of Happiness and Virtue Ethicsmentioning

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“…53 See XLII,[348][349][350][351][352][353][354][355][393][394][395][396][397][398][399][451][452][453][454][455][456][457][491][492][493][494]. See also (Melle, 1991(Melle, , 2002(Melle, , 2007Peucker, 2008 Husserl recognizes that, given the vagaries, vices, and vicissitudes of the world, virtue off ers the best prospect of happiness (XLII, 297-333), but he, like Aristotle, also realizes that virtue does not guarantee happiness (XLII,382). Yet he cannot without further ado be characterized as a virtue ethicist in the Classical Western tradition 55 .…”

Section: Phenomenology Of Happiness and Virtue Ethicsmentioning

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From Happiness to Blessedness: Husserl on Eudaimonia, Virtue, and the Best Life

Cavallaro¹,

Heffernan²

2019

HORIZON / Fenomenologicheskie issledovanija/ STUDIEN ZUR PHÄNOM

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Th is paper treats of Husserl's phenomenology of happiness or eudaimonia in fi ve parts. In the fi rst part, we argue that phenomenology of happiness is an important albeit relatively neglected area of research, and we show that Husserl engages in it. In the second part, we examine the relationship between phenomenological ethics and virtue ethics. In the third part, we identify and clarify essential aspects of Husserl's phenomenology of happiness, namely, the nature of the question concerning happiness and the possibility of a phenomenological answer, the power of the will, the role of vocation, the place of obligation, the signifi cance of habituation, the necessity of selfrefl ection and self-criticism, the importance of sociability and solidarity, the impact of chance and destiny, and the specter of regret. In the fourth part, we establish the inextricable linkage between Husserl's metaethics and his metaphysics. In the fi ft h part, we provide a provisional exploration of his conception of the connection between happiness and blessedness. We acknowledge that there is an extensive literature on Husserl's phenomenological ethics, and our study has benefi tted greatly from it, but we also suggest that our holistic approach critically clarifi es his description of happiness, virtue, and blessedness by fully recognizing that his phenomenological metaethics is embedded in his phenomenological metaphysics.

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The Development of Husserl’s Ethics

Cited by 31 publications

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Values of love: two forms of infinity characteristic of human persons

Values of love: two forms of infinity characteristic of human persons

Heidegger and Husserl on the Technological-Scientific Worldview

From Happiness to Blessedness: Husserl on Eudaimonia, Virtue, and the Best Life

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