Metaphysics within the Limits of Phenomenology: Balthasar and Husserl on the Nature of the Philosophical Act

This article compares the accounts Edmund Husserl and Hans Urs von Balthasar offer of the ultimate philosophical act: the transcendental reduction and contemplation of the fourfold difference, respectively. It argues that Husserl's method precludes from the outset the raising of the question of...

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Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Facultad de Teología 2009
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spelling oai:scielo:S0049-344920090001000172009-08-28Metaphysics within the Limits of Phenomenology: Balthasar and Husserl on the Nature of the Philosophical ActSchindler,David C Balthasar Husserl Phenomenology Metaphysics Being This article compares the accounts Edmund Husserl and Hans Urs von Balthasar offer of the ultimate philosophical act: the transcendental reduction and contemplation of the fourfold difference, respectively. It argues that Husserl's method precludes from the outset the raising of the question of being, and that as a consequence, all four of the distinctions that Balthasar describes must ultimately collapse in his phenomenology. An adequate response to Husserl must attend, at least implicitly, to the whole of the fourfold difference in all of its dimensions. The article concludes with a brief reflection on the significance of metaphysics for Christianity and the significance of Christianity for metaphysics.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Facultad de TeologíaTeología y vida v.50 n.1-2 20092009-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0049-34492009000100017en10.4067/S0049-34492009000100017
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topic Balthasar
Husserl
Phenomenology
Metaphysics
Being
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Husserl
Phenomenology
Metaphysics
Being
Schindler,David C
Metaphysics within the Limits of Phenomenology: Balthasar and Husserl on the Nature of the Philosophical Act
description This article compares the accounts Edmund Husserl and Hans Urs von Balthasar offer of the ultimate philosophical act: the transcendental reduction and contemplation of the fourfold difference, respectively. It argues that Husserl's method precludes from the outset the raising of the question of being, and that as a consequence, all four of the distinctions that Balthasar describes must ultimately collapse in his phenomenology. An adequate response to Husserl must attend, at least implicitly, to the whole of the fourfold difference in all of its dimensions. The article concludes with a brief reflection on the significance of metaphysics for Christianity and the significance of Christianity for metaphysics.
author Schindler,David C
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title Metaphysics within the Limits of Phenomenology: Balthasar and Husserl on the Nature of the Philosophical Act
title_short Metaphysics within the Limits of Phenomenology: Balthasar and Husserl on the Nature of the Philosophical Act
title_full Metaphysics within the Limits of Phenomenology: Balthasar and Husserl on the Nature of the Philosophical Act
title_fullStr Metaphysics within the Limits of Phenomenology: Balthasar and Husserl on the Nature of the Philosophical Act
title_full_unstemmed Metaphysics within the Limits of Phenomenology: Balthasar and Husserl on the Nature of the Philosophical Act
title_sort metaphysics within the limits of phenomenology: balthasar and husserl on the nature of the philosophical act
publisher Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Facultad de Teología
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