Husserl `The crisis of european sciences`

SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1 Edmund Husserl and the Crisis of Science and Method

Abstract

Husserl is criticizing the modern positivist establishment on the following grounds : by a prior eliminating basic questions from its approach it has eliminated the very ground of science : meaning , being autonomy , humanization . Ultimately , for Husserl , method must be customized to the subject matter and questions should not a priori be rejected solely doe to their possible metaphysical content

The text by Husserl is a work in science , its meaning , and importantly its method . This text

deals with the concept of science from a single axiom : that the scientific enterprise is about meaning , the meaning of subject and object , or consciousness and the world in that in both levels of analysis , reason can find itself : that reason as a fact of consciousness can see itself reflected in the reasonable nature of the universe . Hence , science is a subject and object . As a result , one single method or set of dogmatic assumptions about the nature of the universe cannot suffice for a full understanding of the whole . Method is itself a historical and historicized subject

This essay (or this part of it ) deals , firstly , with the criticism of positivism as an abandonment ' of the Positivism is to science what technique is to philosophy . Positivism seeks to comprehend a world of facts ' while philosophy and science seek meaning and truth . The scientific quest for meaning is to reveal the...