Some Moments of Wonder Emergent within Transcendental Phenomenological Analyses
G. Hart James
Open Theology January 31, 2020 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2020-0004 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Keywords | Transcendental phenomenology Wonder Manifestness Metafact Edmund husserl |
| Key points | Argues that a distinctive form of wonder in Husserl's phenomenology is directed at the correlation of being and consciousness, and that an even more fundamental wonder is the manifestness of first-person experience. |
Abstract
There is a distinctive wonder bordering on and awakening to the philosophy of religion within Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology. This is not primarily a wonder directed to how things are or that they are, but rather the wonder connected to the most fundamental principle of transcendental phenomenology. That principle is the ancient principle of the convertibility of being with what is true or the inseparability of being and manifestation. Phenomenological wonder is primarily at the correlation of being as what is true or made manifest with consciousness. And yet there is an even more basic phenomenological wonder which founds this correlation, and that is the manifestness of first-person experience within which all other wonder emerges.