Is Causality Admissible in Phenomenology? A Corrective to Edmund Husserl’s Idea

Abstract

The article rejects the traditional limitation of causality in phenomenology and attempts to demonstrate the mistakes in Edmund Husserl’s arguments for such an understanding, which limited natural causality to the empirical world and confused both natural as well as motivational causality with logical and psychological connections. The specificity of causality is stressed, in order to clarify the main structures of pure consciousness—thought, feeling, and will—as well as to elucidate the mutual irreducibility of connections and interactions between them. Thus, phenomenology altogether can be outlined as being compatible with scientific discipline

Keywords

• phenomenology
• causality
• science
• difference between thought and feeling