Emphaty as the foundation of the social sciences and of social life: a reading of Husserl's phenomenology of transcendental intersubjectivity

Sociedade e Estado

Frédéric Vandenberghe¹ 

[1],Universidade de Brasília University for Humanist Studies

关键词: social order;    empathy;    phenomenology;    Husserl;    Habermas;    ordem social;    empatia;    fenomenologia;    Husserl e Habermas;    ordre social;    empathie;    phénoménologie;    Habermas;    Husserl;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0102-69922002000200016

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Starting with an overview of possible solutions to the problem of social order, the author presents a non-acritical reconstruction of Edmund Husserl's transcendental phenomenology of intersubjectivity as a sympathetic alternative to Habermas's theory of communicative action. By means of a detailed analysis of the concept of empathy (Einfühlung), he shows that Husserl's phenomenology of intersubjectivity offers a triple foundation of the sciences. As a warrant of the objectivity of the world, it grounds the natural sciences; as a presupposition of sociality, it founds the social sciences; as mediated by culture, it grounds the social sciences as human sciences.

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