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It is our purpose to elucidate the transcendental character of the a priori: its essential relation to the possibility of experience and its origin in transcendental subjectivity. It is to Kant’s theory of the a priori that we look for a point of departure. However, in order to reveal fully the transcendental import of Kant’s teaching, appeal will be made to Husserl’s modified and expanded theory of the Kantian a priori. Central to Husserl’s teaching, and of utmost importance to our purpose, is his phenomenological analysis of transcendental subjectivity. Only such an analysis, we are convinced, offers the hope of uncovering the transcendental function of the a priori on the primal level of the pre-predicative, pre-reflective experience underlying ethical and aesthetical reflection.
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Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (transi, by N. K. Smith), St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1965, p. 96. Although we shall utilize Smith-s translation, our subsequent references to the Critique will employ the original pagination of the German edition — the first edition being referred to as A, the second edition as B. In this instance the original pagination is A56 = B80.
Cf. Edmund Husserl, Erste Philosophie (1923/24), Vol. I: Kritische Ideengeschichte (ed. by R. Boehm) Ha. Vol. VII, Nijhoff, The Hague, 1956, pp. 398–99.
Edmund Husserl, Die Krisis der europäischen Wissenschaften und die transzendentale Phänomenologie (ed. by W. Biemel), Ha. Vol. VI, Nijhoff, The Hague, 1954, p. 142. Here¬after this
Cf. Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena To Any Future Metaphysics (transi, and ed. by L. W. Beck), Bobbs-Merrill Company, New York, 1950, pp. 14–15.
Edmund Husserl, Formal and Transcendental Logic (transi, by D. Cairns), Nijhoff, The Hague, 1969, p. 120 (106–07). The numbers within brackets refer to the original pagination.
Robert Sokolowski has outlined clearly in his The Formation of Husserl’s Concept of Constitution, Nijhoff, The Hague, 1964, the historical transformation which Husserl’s concepts
Cf. Edmund Husserl, Cartesianische Meditationen und Pariser Vortrage (ed. by S. Strasser), Ha. Vol. I, Nijhoff, The Hague, 1950, p. 104. This will be cited as Cartes. Med.
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Murphy, R.T. (1974). The Transcendental ‘A Priori’ in Husserl and Kant. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) The Phenomenological Realism of the Possible Worlds. Analecta Husserliana, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2163-0_4
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