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Guys not able to understand Sartre rejection of transcendental ego as postulated by Husserl due to dearth of quality material.. can someone please shed some light on this please?
Husserls' transcendental ego and Sartre objections to it
Husserl’s phenomenological method, main aim, exploring the fundamental way in which human consciousness grasps reality by striving to isolate cognitive functions + empirical data. But later, Husserl’s thought took an increasingly idealistic turn and the notion of the Transcendental Ego became essential for his philosophy of meaning. Husserl moved towards transcendental-phenomenological idealim He seems to have reasoned as follows: "The world" cannot be thought of except as being "constituted" by the transcendental ego’s intentional acts. It follows, says Husserl, that nothing can exist if it is not dependent for its existence on the transcendental self. This implies that the essences emerging as residues at the end of phenomenological and transcendental reduction are existentially dependent upon the transcendental ego.
This view makes Husserl a subjective idealist. The standard criticism of subjective idealism is that transcendent ego implies that the Ego literally brings the world into existence. In fact, many of Husserl’s early followers were disappointed by this development of his thought.
This later thought of Husserl runs into the dilemma of any thought in the line of Berkeley, Kant etc that attempts to achieve final certainty based on the sole starting point of self-consciousness. With this development of his thought, Husserl’s stated aim to achieve certain knowledge, presuppositionlessness in philosophy etc through his phenomenological method has ran into difficulties
Sartre's objections 1 Sartre says that this concept of transcendental ego is against the initial position that Husserl himself took i.e. Theory of intentionality i.e. consciuosness means consciousness of something. But nothing can be accepted as being consciousness of transcendent ego as this will amount to saying consciousness of consciousness Sartre says that there is no such thing as Transcendent Ego
So Sartre says that conscioisness means lack of consciousness, consciousness has no contents
2 For Husserl, pure consciousness, for which everything that exists is an object, is the ground for all meaning.
Sartre says that concept of Trabscendental Ego reverses the initial claim of Phenomenology i.e. to conduct a presumppositionless study and develop philosophy as a rigourous science
3 Sartre criticizes Husserl’s notion by contending that it leads to the solipsism typical of subjective idealism
4 Sartre says that existence is prior to essences
Because of these differences, Sartre went on to pursue his own brand of existentialism
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Husserl’s phenomenological method, main aim, exploring the fundamental way in which human consciousness grasps reality by striving to isolate cognitive functions + empirical data.
But later, Husserl’s thought took an increasingly idealistic turn and the notion of the Transcendental Ego became essential for his philosophy of meaning.
Husserl moved towards transcendental-phenomenological idealim
He seems to have reasoned as follows:
"The world" cannot be thought of except as being "constituted" by the transcendental ego’s intentional acts.
It follows, says Husserl, that nothing can exist if it is not dependent for its existence on the transcendental self.
This implies that the essences emerging as residues at the end of phenomenological and transcendental reduction are existentially dependent upon the transcendental ego.
This view makes Husserl a subjective idealist.
The standard criticism of subjective idealism is that transcendent ego implies that the Ego literally brings the world into existence.
In fact, many of Husserl’s early followers were disappointed by this development of his thought.
This later thought of Husserl runs into the dilemma of any thought in the line of Berkeley, Kant etc that attempts to achieve final certainty based on the sole starting point of self-consciousness.
With this development of his thought, Husserl’s stated aim to achieve certain knowledge, presuppositionlessness in philosophy etc through his phenomenological method has ran into difficulties
Sartre's objections
1 Sartre says that this concept of transcendental ego is against the initial position that Husserl himself took i.e. Theory of intentionality i.e. consciuosness means consciousness of something.
But nothing can be accepted as being consciousness of transcendent ego as this will amount to saying consciousness of consciousness
Sartre says that there is no such thing as Transcendent Ego
So Sartre says that conscioisness means lack of consciousness, consciousness has no contents
2 For Husserl, pure consciousness, for which everything that exists is an object, is the ground for all meaning.
Sartre says that concept of Trabscendental Ego reverses the initial claim of Phenomenology i.e. to conduct a presumppositionless
study and develop philosophy as a rigourous science
3 Sartre criticizes Husserl’s notion by contending that it leads to the solipsism typical of subjective idealism
4 Sartre says that existence is prior to essences
Because of these differences, Sartre went on to pursue his own brand of existentialism