Ethics and the Overcoming of Egology in Edmund Husserl´s Phenomenology

CELIA CABRERA

Graz

Workshop; Phenomenology and Current Philosophical Debates; 2014

Karl-Franzens-Universität-Graz

The general core of the paper is to reflect on the contribution of Edmund Husserl´s ethics to the resolution of what, in the context of his theory of intersubjectivity, is known as the problem of egology. In this context, I try to highlight the way the self-overcoming of Egology reaches its highest point in the horizon of ethics, not only because ethics implies naturally an intersubjective horizon, as long as it corresponds to a higher level of analysis, but mainly because Husserl´s reflections on the subject help to enrich significantly his understanding of the relation to alterity. To show the way this overcoming has place, I refer in what follows to two aspects: (1) an analysis of the different levels that emerge in the development of ethical consciousness that ends in the intersubjective concept of "Glückseligkeit" and (2) the idea of ethical love (ethische Liebe) and the form of community grounded on it, as the highest point of intersubjective relation.