How Is Life-World A Transcendental Philosophy

Philosopher Edmund Husserl’s book, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, raised several concepts and ideas throughout the history of philosophy. The purpose of this essay is to explore and analyze ideas in two of Husserl’s specific themes: The Life-World and the World of Science and The Origin of Geometry. Another purpose is to try to establish, if possible, any connections or compatibilities between the two themes, or ideas within the two themes. Part One- The Life-World: The life-world, simply put, is the world as experienced in everyday life. This, however, needs more clarification. The word “as” is important because it refers to a structure or horizon. It is the horizon of everything that a living person

By smaller scale, I mean understanding the features of the life-world within our own mental context. “Universally as world” is an extremely broad subject, and one should not, or need not, attempt to universally rationalize the life-world or search for universal truths unless one has a goal of working in the field of philosophy as a profession. Husserl suggests that humans are possibly only concerned with whatever is in the horizon of the life-world (Husserl 379). That seems to indicate that we humans only pay attention to, and value, possibilities, ideas, states of affairs, and concrete facts that exist within the horizon of the life-world or our mental boundaries. To better appreciate and comprehend traits within the life-world, one should understand the possible relationships between life-world meaning and theoretical

For example: he does not care about discovering the “first geometers,” or historical aspects about the discovery of theories or proofs (Husserl 354). Husserl’s goal is to explore the sense of geometry and the starting points of its ideas. Below is a brief overview of the sense of geometry in Husserl’s study. A person is seeing and perceiving a set of parallel lines. Euclid originated this concept of geometry in 300 B.C, but that is still a historical aspect that Husserl seems to be unconcerned with. Now I will try to apply Husserl’s framework of the life-world (as experienced in everyday life) and the theory of intentionality to an ideal object. First, however, a few terms need to be clarified. Ideal is different from real. Real involves “facts,” which are concrete objects or events. Ideal involves essences, or universals, which include species, properties, and relations. Ideal also involves meanings, which deal with concepts, propositions, and theories. In addition, ideal involves mathematics, which deals with numbers, sets, and geometrical shapes. According to Aristotle’s notion: shapes came into existence in a certain point in