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Discovery of Phenomenology
Husserl claimed the goal of the method is to create mediation between Empiricism (observation) and rationalism (reason and theory) by showing that all philosophical and scientific developments are in the interests and structures of experiential and observational life. Phenomenology is a first-person look of lived experiences to obtain information and is used to describe things as they appear in human consciousness and experience. -
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Logical Investigations
Husserl was the father of phenomenology but did not coin the terminology. In 1889 Franz Brentano used the term “phenomenology” for descriptive psychology, and this paved the way for Husserl's science of phenomenology. Phenomenology as we know it was launched by Edmund Husserl in one of his publications Logical Investigations Husserl, Edmund. Logical investigations / Edmund Husserl ; translated by J. N. Findlay Routledge and K. Paul ; Humanities Press London : New York 1970 -
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Husserl's Major Works
Husserl, Edmund. Logical investigations / Edmund Husserl ; translated by J. N. Findlay Routledge and K. Paul ; Humanities Press London : New York 1970 Ideas 1&2 Husserl, Edmund, and William R. B. Gibson. Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology. New York: Collier Books, 1962. -
Natural and Phenomenological Attitude
Husserl described "natural attitude" as a combination of our everyday life and ordinary science in consciousness he also described phenomenological attitude during which you "bracket" your belief in the natural attitude by realizing it is just that, a belief and only focus on how you experience reality. Husserl wanted to go think beyond a separate world of things that exist outside of consciousness and focus on learning how people observe and experience the world around them -
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Important Philosophical Discoveries
Husserl developed his most important philosophical discoveries including transcendental phenomenological method, phenomenological structure of time-consciousness, the intentionality of consciousness and phenomenological reduction -
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1. Ideas 1&2
Ideas was Husserl's main writing. He developed most of these deas in Gottingen, where he made his most important philosophical discoveries such as the transcendental phenomenological method, the phenomenological structure of time-consciousness. Transcendental phenomenology focuses on the important framework that allow objects taken for granted in the "natural attitude" as Husserl described as a combination of our everyday life and ordinary science in consciousness. -
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2. Ideas 1&2
He also believed that there was a phenomenological attitude during which you "bracket" your belief in the natural attitude by realizing it is just that, a belief, and only focus on how you experience reality. In his work Ideas he explains in great detail the perspective on intentional consciousness and how it is supposed to allow a phenomenologist to have a radial unbiased justification of his/her views of the world, themselves and how investigate their rational interconnections.