Two Ways of Understanding Persons: A Husserlian Distinction

This paper clarifies the distinction that Edmund Husserl makes between two different ways of understanding other persons, their actions and motivations: the experiential or empirical way, on the one hand, and the genuinely or authentically intuitive way, on the other hand. The paper argues that Hus...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:2768d4396dd849e692f4d9d07b0a5b6e2021-12-02T13:03:13ZTwo Ways of Understanding Persons: A Husserlian Distinction10.13128/Phe_Mi-249742280-78532239-4028https://doaj.org/article/2768d4396dd849e692f4d9d07b0a5b6e2019-03-01T00:00:00Zhttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/pam/article/view/7325https://doaj.org/toc/2280-7853https://doaj.org/toc/2239-4028 This paper clarifies the distinction that Edmund Husserl makes between two different ways of understanding other persons, their actions and motivations: the experiential or empirical way, on the one hand, and the genuinely or authentically intuitive way, on the other hand. The paper argues that Husserl’s discussion of self-understanding clarifies his concept of the intuitive understanding of others and allows us to explicate what is involved in it: not just the grasping of the other’s actual motivations of action but also the grasping of her motivational possibilities. The paper ends by discussing the dynamic character of the personal subject. Sara HeinämaaRosenberg & Sellierarticleunderstanding othersempiricalintuitivepossibilitiesAestheticsBH1-301EthicsBJ1-1725ENFRITPhenomenology and Mind, Iss 15 (2019)
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FR
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topic understanding others
empirical
intuitive
possibilities
Aesthetics
BH1-301
Ethics
BJ1-1725
spellingShingle understanding others
empirical
intuitive
possibilities
Aesthetics
BH1-301
Ethics
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Sara Heinämaa
Two Ways of Understanding Persons: A Husserlian Distinction
description This paper clarifies the distinction that Edmund Husserl makes between two different ways of understanding other persons, their actions and motivations: the experiential or empirical way, on the one hand, and the genuinely or authentically intuitive way, on the other hand. The paper argues that Husserl’s discussion of self-understanding clarifies his concept of the intuitive understanding of others and allows us to explicate what is involved in it: not just the grasping of the other’s actual motivations of action but also the grasping of her motivational possibilities. The paper ends by discussing the dynamic character of the personal subject.
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