Methodological Reductionism in Realistic Phenomenology

What is the status of the reduction in realistic phenomenology? Approaching this question presupposes understanding what realistic phenomenology is. Five ways of defining realistic phenomenology are delineated: 1) lineage definitions, 2) locality definitions, 3) thematic definitions, 4) definitions from the essence of philosophy, and 5) methodological definitions. The question of reduction’s status concerns mostly a combination of 4) and 5) but also draws on historical considerations. An overview of the realists’ critiques of the phenomenological reduction reveals that this method was not unilaterally rejected and, thus, demonstrates that there is not only methodological epochism but indeed also methodological reductionism within realistic phenomenology. The common denominator of these critiques is that the reductive method in transcendental phenomenology depends on a phenomenological theory of reality. An indepth discussion of Scheler’s philosophical anthropology shows that it hinges on a principled revision and systematic completion of the reduction. Reduction is no longer viewed as a scientific method but as a technique of inner acting. From the vantage point of his voluntative realism, Scheler’s technological reductionism is spelled out in terms of a stratified scheme relating reality experiences as resistance to the levels of the vital-psychic sphere: 1) primary resistance, 2) ecologically bound resistance, 3) internalized resistance, 4) ego-dystonic resistance and 5) (dis-)inhibition and objectification of drive impulses. Drawing on Celms’s distinction between 1) reducendum, 2) reductive base, 3) reduction as an epistemic act, and 4) result of the reduction, a new and systematic interpretation of Schelerian reductions is developed for the scientific, phenomenological/Apollonian, Dionysian, and cathartic reductions. Each reductive technique cultivates man’s facultative dispositions (intellect, will, feeling). Only their concerted cooperation unlocks man’s full cognitive and ethical potential.

• | Kapitel kaufen CoverU1
• | Kapitel kaufen Inhaltsverzeichnis3
• | Kapitel kaufen Andrea Cimino: Husserl on Illusory Things – Prolegomena to any Noematic, Onto-Phenomenological Clarification of Sensory Illusion5
• | Kapitel kaufen Abstract5
• | Kapitel kaufen Introduction5
• | Kapitel kaufen An Eidetic, Noematically Oriented, Onto-Phenomenological Clarification8
• | Kapitel kaufen Formal and Material Ontology (1): Sensory Illusions of Individua and their Variants17
• | Kapitel kaufen Formal and Material Ontology (2): Sensory Illusions of Things20
• | Kapitel kaufen Illusory Things (1): The Principle of Coordination and the A Priori Laws of Mutability and Reversibility26
• | Kapitel kaufen Illusory Things (2): The Psycho-Physical Condition of the Lived-Body, Subjective and Inter-Subjective Levels of Normality and Abnormality, ˋFalse' Appearances30
• | Kapitel kaufen Illusory Things (3): Typification of the Causal-Material Relations of Things with their Surroundings, the Distinction Between Deceptive and Resilient/Incorrigible Illusions36
• | Kapitel kaufen Conclusion38
• | Kapitel kaufen Till Grohmann: Lotze, Bolzano, Husserl: Über Begriffe, Abstraktion und Wesen41
• | Kapitel kaufen Abstract41
• | Kapitel kaufen 1. Begriffe und Abstraktion in Lotzes Logik43
• | Kapitel kaufen 2. Begriffe und Abstraktion in Bolzanos Wissenschaftslehre49
• | Kapitel kaufen 3. Bedeutung und Abstraktion bei Husserl56
• | Kapitel kaufen Schluss64
• | Kapitel kaufen Stefan W. Schmidt: Der gestaltete Ort – Entwurf einer phänomenologischen Topologie des Designs67
• | Kapitel kaufen Abstract 67
• | Kapitel kaufen Einleitung67
• | Kapitel kaufen 1. Phänomenologische Topologie69
• | Kapitel kaufen 1.1 Topologie der Leiblichkeit71
• | Kapitel kaufen 1.2 Topologie der Dinge73
• | Kapitel kaufen 2. Design als topologische Gestaltung79
• | Kapitel kaufen Nicola Spano: Habits of Phantasy and the Possibility of A Priori Knowledge 87
• | Kapitel kaufen Abstract87
• | Kapitel kaufen 1. Pure Essences and Eidetic Variation90
• | Kapitel kaufen 2. Arbitrariness, Freedom and Disconnectedness94
• | Kapitel kaufen 3. The Insufficiency of Totally Free Variation96
• | Kapitel kaufen 4. Motivation, Habits, and Associations99
• | Kapitel kaufen 5. The Habits of Phantasy and the Eidetic Variation101
• | Kapitel kaufen 6. Concluding Remarks: Habits of Phantasy and A Priori Knowledge104
• | Kapitel kaufen Hannes Wendler: Methodological Reductionism in Realistic Phenomenology. – The Completion of the Reduction in Philosophical Anthropology: Reconciling Scientific, Phenomenological/Apollonian, Dionysian and Cathartic Reduction109
• | Kapitel kaufen Abstract109
• | Kapitel kaufen On the Reduction in Realistic Phenomenology110
• | Kapitel kaufen Phenomenological Reductionism and Epochism: Methodological Considerations of the Reduction115
• | Kapitel kaufen The Realistic Critique: Suspending the Moment of Reality without a Theory of Reality122
• | Kapitel kaufen Technological Reductionism in Philosophical Anthropology: Scientific, Phenomenological/Apollonian, Dionysian and Cathartic Reduction126
• | Kapitel kaufen Man amidst White Nights145
• | Kapitel kaufen Buchbesprechungen147
• | Kapitel kaufen Autorinnen und Autoren169