Self-Constitution of Transcendent Nature from the Phenomenological Perspective: »Vicious Circle«?
Abstract
Huserl’s concepts of nature, person, freedom and practical possibility in his Ideas II develop in circles of relative, intentional relations all the way to the last word of the absolute Ego . The absolute Ego is shown as the bearer of all these relations and up to a certain extent forms their basis. What in nature moves in circles is the spirit. When we delve into the essence of nature, we usually exclude the spirit, though the further development of phenomenological questioning comes back to it in nature. This moving in circles, which at first seems harmless and part of phenomenological method of objectifying, becomes a sort of a problem, and in relation to constitutional problems even a »vicious circle«