Abstract

Husserlian phenomenology seeks an understan- ding of rationality able of making any cultural agen- cy, such as scientific or ethical, meaningfull and legi- timate. Although Husserl begins his quest by see- king an absolutely founded knowledge, later he en- counters inner discontinuity of phenomenological theory and practice. That is only solved when phe- nomenology itself becoms a practical self-realisation and sense-making. Non-classical nature of pheno- menological 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. Raktiniai iodiiai: fenomenologija, racionalumas, patirtis, praktika, transcendentalinis subjektyvumas.