Husserl
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German philosopher who developed phenomenology (1859-1938)
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Husserl has shown that man's prejudices go a great deal deeper than his intellect or his emotions. Consciousness itself is 'prejudiced.
According to Frege the reference of a sentence is a truth value; for Husserl it is a "state of affairs."
Although a steadfast proponent of a radical and rational autonomy in all things, Husserl could also speak "about his vocation and even about his mission under God's will to find new ways for philosophy and science," observes Spiegelberg.
Arguing that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge, Husserl re-defined phenomenology as a transcendental-idealist philosophy.
A German edition Cartesianische Meditationen (which Husserl had reworked) came out in 1950.
An Analysis of His Phenomenology. p. 33. In his "Ideen period" (1911–1925) Husserl also produced two unpublished manuscripts later referred to as Ideen II and Ideen III.