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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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The ethical dimension of transcendental reduction

Rosemary Rizo-Patrón De Lerner

pp. 43-67

Abstract

The following essay stems from my interest in finding out whether Taminiaux's appealing and well-argued reading of the Greek and Platonic connivance between theôria and poiêsis in contrast to the fragility and contingency of human practical judgments and the human intrigue of our worldly abode—a reading that in his view is retrieved by modern and contemporary German philosophers, including Heidegger—may be applied to Husserl's transcendental phenomenology and reduction. In my view, Taminiaux's original and piercingly acute reading of the history of philosophy is above all due to his close and severe scrutiny of texts transmitted by the tradition, in dialogue with our experience of the "matters themselves." Following this spirit, I risk an alternative reading of the phenomenological reduction, and specifically of its transcendental version, as an eminently practical—namely, ethical—achievement (Leistung), driven by a practical virtue, responsibility.

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Fóti Véronique, Kontos Pavlos (2017) Phenomenology and the primacy of the political: Essays in honor of Jacques Taminiaux. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 43-67

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-56160-8_4

Full citation:

Rizo-Patrón De Lerner Rosemary (2017) „The ethical dimension of transcendental reduction“, In: V. Fóti & P. Kontos (eds.), Phenomenology and the primacy of the political, Dordrecht, Springer, 43–67.