ANTHROPOLOGICAL DESCARTES’ RATIONALISM AND  IT'S HUSSERL’S RECEPTION

Anatolii M. Malivskyi

doi:10.15802/ampr2016/72242

Authors

Anatolii M. Malivskyi Dnipropetrovsk National University of Railway Transport named after Academician V. Lazaryan, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6923-5145

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15802/ampr2016/72242

Keywords:

Descartes, Husserl, rationality, anthropological rationality, physicalistic rationality, objectivity, subjectivity

Abstract

Purpose. The article is aimed to figure out the features of Husserl's reception of anthropological Descartes rationalism. Its implementation requires a consistent solution of the following tasks: 1) schematically express a modern vision of the basic intentions of philosophizing as an anthropological rationalism; 2) highlight the main points of the Husserl's reception of Descartes’ rationalism as the deanthropologizing and analyze radicalization of its basic design as the reanthropologizing. Conclusions. When clarifying the question of the method of reception and completion of the philosophical Descartes’ project in the doctrine of Edmund Husserl, the author finds that the originality of his reception of anthropological Descartes’ rationalism appears as the paradoxical union of denying the existence of anthropology in the base project and the rediscovery of its key role in the radicalization of Descartes. Thinking of its way, he comes to the rediscovery some of the key ideas of the French philosopher, rooted in his anthropological rationalism. Among them is the basic intention of the ambivalence, the rejection of Descartes’ ideas of panrationalism, recognition irreducibility of philosophical method to the mathematical, constitutive of human presence in the new rationalism. Prospects for further research in understanding the author sees a meaningful relationship and continuity of the two great thinkers - namely, the personal nature of philosophizing and the ethical focus of their searching. Originality. Appeal to the reception of Husserl's Cartesian project confirms the thesis of an essential importance for the basic anthropological project of Descartes. The presented version of Husserl reception base project Descartes is a reproduction of the surface age stereotypes, which link the quest of the philosopher with the natural sciences and neglected anthropological measurements. The proposed version of the radicalization of Descartes’ project is largely rediscovery of the key importance of anthropological measurements in the quest for the founder of rationalism. Although Husserl himself afraid of phenomenology transformation into anthropology, significant trends anthropologization rationalism for his pursuit is certain.

Author Biography

Anatolii M. Malivskyi, Dnipropetrovsk National University of Railway Transport named after Academician V. Lazaryan

Malivskyі Anatolii, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor of Philosophical Sciences, Department of Philosophy and Sociology of Dnipropetrovsk National University of Railway Transport named after Academician V. Lazaryan, was born in 1957 in Ukraine. The title of Candidate of Philosophical Sciences PhD thesis: "The Phenomenon of Representation in Classical and Modern Philosophy". It is devoted to the phenomenon of the ontological approach to the representation of the European classical philosophy and its modern interpretation. Associate Professor Malivskyі A. an author of over 30 scientific publications, including "The first and second" Critique’s "Kant" (1991), "The creation and the thing: a critique of consciousness in the doctrine represented by M.Heidegger " (1994), "The ambiguity of understanding the rationality of Rene Descartes' (1996) "Alternative theory of the nature by Arthur Schopenhauer" (1998), "The anthropological dimension of Cartesian metaphysics in the context of the crisis of technological civilization" (2006), "The anthropological dimension of metaphysics "the dialogue of" Heidegger and Descartes (2008)," "The philosophical doctrine of Kant as the search of the authentic forms of anthropological metaphysics "(2012). Associate Professor Malivskyі A. an expert on the history of philosophy, the problems of reception of European classic’s philosophy in the modern context, the anthropological dimension of metaphysics. Associate Professor Malivskyі A. was a member of the XX World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, 1998.

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