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Husserl and God

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The history of reason proposed by Husserl presupposes an a priori elucidation of God. Under reduction God can be envisaged only as an ideal of intuition and of knowledge. Husserl is much farther from the God of religion than Descartes, since his conception of the autonomous subject forces him to see in God only an idea.

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Edmund Husserl radicalizes Franz Brentano's thesis that God is the ideal of a perfect knowledge, the ideal of a perfect will, or again is the ideal of all ideals and is thus a mathematical infinite and not a qualitative infinity. The God resulting from the reduction is therefore not the God of Descartes; Edmund Husserl read the third of the Metaphysical Meditations as a slippage into theology. God, by the reduction, is a pure identity of essence and is not at all what would be given in a synthesis of identification. Edmund Husserl can say that God is a pole located beyond the world and beyond humans, but without renouncing reduction, since God is then an absolute polar idea that humans themselves place at the end of their path. The radicality of the reduction, regards the transcendence of God, is what allows us to turn our gaze toward the potentialities of intentional life animated by the active idea of God.

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Philosophie
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hal-04384210 , version 1 (10-01-2024)

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Emmanuel Housset. Husserl and God. Joseph Rivera; Joseph S. O'Leary. Theologicla Fringes of Phenomenology, 1, Routledge, pp.27-35, 2024, 978-1-032-47211-9. ⟨10.4324/9781003389811-4⟩. ⟨hal-04384210⟩
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