Document Type

Contribution to Book

Language

ger

Format of Original

20 p.

Publication Date

2010

Publisher

Ergon

Source Publication

Geist – Person – Gemeinschaft: Freiburger Beiträge zur Aktualität Husserls

Source ISSN

9783899137507

Abstract

In this essay, I will attempt a systematic reconstruction of the general shape of Husserl's late philosophy, insofar as it centers on the concept of personhood. The systematic concatenation of this and other themes in Husserl's late work - the method of epoché and reduction, ethics, personhood, and teleology - has only recently begun to be explored in Husserl scholarship, and this article is a modest contribution to the further e1ucidation of their mutual relationship. One of the most striking results of this reconstructive analysis is Husserl's final concept of "person", which goes beyond the traditional distinctions, such as "heart" and "mind" or "reason" and "emotion". For Husserl to conceive of the subject as moral person implies, then, the demand to not only conduct oneself morally (in a novel sense of "moral"), but also to have an ethical view of the world as a world that bears meaning and harbors values despite its apparent absurdities.

Comments

Published version. "Das Subjekt als moralische Person. Zu Husserls späten Reflexionen bezüglich des Personenbegriffs," in Geist – Person – Gemeinschaft: Freiburger Beiträge zur Aktualität Husserls. Eds. Philippe Merz, Andrea Staiti and Frank Steffen. Würzburg: Ergon, 2010: 221-240. Publisher Link. © 2010 Ergon.

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