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The main debt which we European men of thought owe to Edmund Husserl is principally to be found in the theoretical/moral testimony with which the Moravian philosopher has restored modern man’s, and — I should like to add — post-modern man’s, faith in the unexplored possibilities of philosophy as “universal knowledge,” and this, at a most crucial moment in the decline of Western identity. The end of the great philosophical systems founded on the intellectual speculation and arrogant intellectualism as well as on the triumphal success of the natural sciences prefigured, within the ambit of the philosophical episteme of the last 150 years, the beginning of a regressus in infinitum the results of which are not easy to foresee.
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Cf. N. Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings. Cybernetics and Society (1954). Italian translation by Boringhieri (Turin: 1966).
E. Husserl, Philosophie als strenge Wissenschaft, Italian translation by F. Costa (Torino: Paravia, 1958), p. 12.
J. Patocka, Saggi eretici sulla filosofia della storia (Bologna: CSEO, 1981), p. 120.
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E. Paci, Funzione delle scienze e significato dell’uomo (Milan: Il Saggiatore, 1963), p. 170.
In this case we are referring to bioethics, human ecology, anthropogeography, the semiology of culture, etc.
M. Merleau-Ponty, Phénoménologie de la perception, Italian translation by A. Bonomi (Milan: Il Saggiatore, 1980), p. 17.
M. Heidegger, Vortrage und Aufsatze, Italian translation by G. Vattimo (Milan: Mursia, 1976), p. 104.
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Salsa, A. (1991). Phenomenology as a Theory of Culture. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) New Queries in Aesthetics and Metaphysics. Analecta Husserliana, vol 37. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3394-4_8
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