Abstract

Husserlian phenomenology seeks an understanding of rationality able of making any cultural agency, such as scientific or ethical, meaningfull and legitimate. Although Husserl begins his quest by seeking an absolutely founded knowledge, later he encounters inner discontinuity of phenomenological theory and practice. That is only solved when phenomenology itself becoms a practical self-realisation and sense-making. Non-classical nature of phenomenological notion of rationality becomes apparent when mind is understood as vital mind, as Ortega y Gasset's razon vital, as a kind of practice by which the dualism of mind and world as well as reducibility of mind to a mere fact of the world are both avoided.