From The Critique To Naturalistic Positivism To A Phenomenology As “PhilosophicaL Positivism”.

Abstract

The present paper approaches initially the exercise of the critical task in Husserl’s phenomenology. It highlights the denunciation concerning to the theoretical contradictions of the naturalist doctrine, as well as emphasize the epistemic naivety of positive sciences founded on naturalism. The paper also shows that the denunciation of such contradictions becomes a condition for the exercise of the “positive task”, through which a phenomenological sense of the idea of “progress” (Fortschritt) would be revealed. It is not about an accidental progress, resulting from an eventual beginning and end, but of progress based on “own things”, that is, on the intuitive presence of the thing to the consciousness. The new meaning of this idea would allow Husserl’s phenomenology to aspire to an authentic “positivism philosophical”.