#ground-laying

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TRANSCENDENTAL EGO ACCORDING TO HUSSERL

ΦΑΙΝΟΜΕΝΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΑΡΧΗ: ΚΑΤΑΝΟΗΣΗ ΟΤΙ ΕΙΜΑΙ ΕΚΕΙΝΟΣ/Η ΠΟΥ ΑΞΙΟΛΟΓΕΙ ΤΟ ΟΛΟ ΤΩΝ ΕΜΠΕΙΡΩΝ... ΚΑΙ ΟΤΙ ΑΥΤΟ-ΚΑΤΑΝΟΟΥΜΕ ΜΕΣΩ ΣΥΜΒΟΛΩΝ/ΕΙΚΟΝΩΝ/ κτλ ΚΑΙ ΟΧΙ ΩΣ Ο ΔΡΩΝ, Ο ΚΑΤΑΝΟΩΝ... ΑΥΤΗ Η ΑΥΤΟ-ΚΑΤΑΝΟΗΣΗ ΟΔΗΓΕΙ ΣΤΟ ΥΠΕΡΒΑΤΟΛΟΓΙΚΟ ΕΓΩ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΝ ΚΙΝΑΙΣΘΗΣΗΣΙΑ Hence, if we use any element of the mundane-ontological interpretedness of the world, we have not exercised a “radical” shift. - In order for the shift to be truly radical in Husserl’s sense, no element of the mundane can enter into either the motivation for self-meditation or into the ground of it—in the sense of an understanding of the essence of spirit prior to the ground-experience that brings spirit to itself. - What we want to accomplish is a radical shift in which the spirit (phenomenological onlooker) is forced back upon itself to interpret itself purely as that “self” that is the bearer (as the human ego) and accomplisher (transcendental constituting ego) of the valuation of the entirety of the mundane-ontological self-interpretedness.

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ΥΠΑΡΚΤΙΚΗ ΑΡΧΗ Fink adds: “The ground, posited in the phenomenological idea of laying-a-ground, is the ‘self’ which uncovers itself only in pure self-meditation” (p.165/13-14). Ο ΦΙΝΚ ΠΡΟΣΘΕΤΕΙ: "ΤΟ ΘΕΜΕΛΙΟ, ΠΟΥ ΤΙΘΕΤΑΙ ΣΤΗ ΦΑΙΝΟΜΕΝΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΙΔΕΑ ΤΟΥ ΘΕΤΕΙΝ-ΕΝΑ-ΘΕΜΕΛΙΟ, ΕΙΝΑΙ Ο 'ΕΑΥΤΟΣ' ΠΟΥ ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΠΤΕΙ ΤΟΝ ΕΑΥΤΟ ΤΟΥ ΜΟΝΟ ΣΤΟΝ ΚΑΘΑΡΟ ΑΥΤΟ-ΣΤΟΧΑΣΜΟ".

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Indeed, “the idea of the ground-laying of philosophy peculiar to phenomenology is the idea of the pure and persistent self meditation [der reinen und konsequenten Selbstbesinnung]” (p.164/13).

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It is important to draw attention to this feature since we typically think of axioms or assumptions when we assay to discern the foundation of a philosophy; but Fink is making a clear break with that practice, holding instead that the first, fundamental decision of a philosophizing is “the meditation, in which a ground-laying is carried out” [“immer ist die Besinnung, in der sich eine solche Grundlegung vollzieht, die erste grundsätzliche Entscheidung eines Philosophierens.”] (p.162/11).