Volume 1, Issue Part 2, 2007
Selected Essays from Asia Part 2
Nam-In Lee
Pages 441-462
Husserl’s View of Metaphysics
The Role of Genuine Metaphysics in Phenomenological Philosophy
It is the aim of this essay to flesh out the claim that Husserl’s phenomenology is not merely a neutral method, but has metaphysics as one of its constitutive parts. What I will show is that Husserl has the same view of metaphysics from the Logical Investigations to his later phenomenology. More specifically, he makes a distinction between a false metaphysics and a true one, and considers it to be the aim of his phenomenology to cope with the limitations of false metaphysics and to establish a true metaphysics on a genuinely phenomenological foundation.