Direct intuition: Strategies of knowledge in the Phenomenology of Life, with reference to the Philosophy of Illumination.
Analecta Husserliana 113:291-315 (2013)
Abstract
This article presents phenomenological meta-analysis of Tymieniecka's
phenomenology of life with regard to its strategies of knowledge. The novelty of
phenomenology of life consists in special orientation of direct intuition of
Tymieniecka's insight. The analysis suggests that the positioning of the direct
intuition differes from philosopher to philosopher. Even though this perspective
pays attention to individual differences in philosophical thinking, this view has to
be distinguished froll1 psychologism as criticized by Husser!. and rather, seen as a
development of Husserl 's lheory of direct intuition. A framework for such analysis
can be also found in Islamic philosophies of Suhrawardi and Ibn 'Arabi, who
introduced the concepts of individual predisposition, modes of knowledge, and
self-knowledge mediated by knowledge by presence. These concepts can be
applied to understanding of the origins of philosophical insight. The paper examines
in depth the workings of direct, or presentive, intuition in Tymieniecka's
descriptions of the phenomenal field of life, and of life per se as a dynamic object.
It demonstrates the dialogical nature of interrogation, and the sentience of logos
as a horizon of philosophical inquiry. Finally, the paper introduces the concept of
process phenomenology, and suggests directions of future research with regard to
phenomenology of imagination.
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