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The Controversy about the Existence of the World in Edmund Husserl’S Phenomenological School: A. Reinach, R. Ingarden, H. Conrad-Martius, E. Stein

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Does the World Exist?

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The discussion of the theme of the existence of the world, raised in particular by the objections that Roman Ingarden had moved against Husserl and subsequently expressed more organically in his Der Streit um die Existenz der Welt,1 involved a number of disciples or scholars who revolved around Husserl at Göttingen and later at Freiburg and raised a question of great theoretical importance connected from the historical point of view with the significance of the turning point reached by modern philosophy regarding the role of subjectivity. It therefore brought to the fore theoretical disputes of great importance, especially the contrast between realism and idealism, that involved the significance of the transcendental in both the Kantian and the Husserlian perspective. And there began to take shape a further problematical node represented by the relationship between gnoseology and ontology.

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  1. R. Ingarden, Der Streit um die Existenz der Welt I, Existenzialontologie (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1964).

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  35. This is the great theme of teleology, considered by Husserl as the “form of all forms” and is discovered as the guiding thread for knowledge of human and natural reality and as “demonstration” of the existence of God (for a further development of the argument, please refer to my article “Teleology as ‘Form of all Forms’ and the Inexhaustibility of Research,” in Analecta Husserliana, Vol. IX, 1979). As regards Husserl’s critique of subjective idealism, see what he writes in Ideen etc., I, § 55.

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Bello, A.A. (2004). The Controversy about the Existence of the World in Edmund Husserl’S Phenomenological School: A. Reinach, R. Ingarden, H. Conrad-Martius, E. Stein. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Does the World Exist?. Analecta Husserliana, vol 79. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0047-5_7

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