The Interpretation of Husserl’s Time-Consciousness in the Reconstruction of the Concept of Anthropic Time. Part Two

V. B. Khanzhy; D. M. Lyashenko

doi:10.15802/ampr.v0i24.295485

Authors

V. B. Khanzhy Odessa National Medical University, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2441-094X
D. M. Lyashenko National University "Odessa Maritime Academy", Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5043-6211

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15802/ampr.v0i24.295485

Keywords:

Edmund Husserl, anthropological paradigm of time, passivity, prereflective cogito, self-consciousness, embodiment, intersubjectivity, relationship of human and non-human consciousness, human time, human consciousness, 'grasping-from-now', epoché, intentionality of consciousness, temporal phases, retention, recollection, perception, protention, anticipation, concept of anthropic of time, 'temporal matryoshka', free will

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to comprehend the Husserlian model of constituting temporal modes through the ability of intentional "retentional-protentional" consciousness, as well as to clarify the possibility of interpreting its positions in the reconstruction of the concept of anthropic time. Theoretical basis. The theoretical framework of the research includes: 1) the interpretation of the phenomenological reflection of "time-consciousness" by E. Husserl in the context of solving the problem of phased-differentiation of this form of temporality; 2) the concept of anthropic time (V. Khanzhy). Originality. For the first time in the research literature, the possibilities of applying the ideas of Husserl to the reconstruction of the concept of anthropic time are considered through the interpretation of the phenomenological solution to the problem of temporality, proposed and specified in Husserl’s "time-consciousness" concept. Conclusions. According to Husserl, the structure of human time-consciousness is instantiated in three spheres of passivity: prerefleсtive cogito, embodiment, and intersubjectivity. Within the framework of the problem of phase differentiation of phenomenological time, an analysis of the potencies of consciousness in constituting the phases of time-consciousness, namely protentional and retentional potencies, has been proposed. In the context of the reconstruction of the concept of anthropic time, several aspects of Husserl’s model of time-consciousness have been interpreted, including the paradoxical reconciliation of two quasi-incompatible ideas: the idea of the vagueness of the boundaries between temporal modes and the thesis of the formal capacity of preserving temporal units within their respective temporal phases. The property of multilevel complexity in the system of human temporality accounts for the diversity in the relationship of unique temporal units based on formal and content-related criteria ('temporal matryoshka').

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