The Ethos of Husserl’s Phenomenology

Abstract

The main thesis of this article is that Husserl’s project of transcendental phenomenology remains in a close connection with axiological and ethical motivation of the German thinker philosophizing. This relation is reflected in a specific ethos of Husserl’s philosophy which can be described as axiological. It is the ethical and practical motivation which affects the specificity of the phenomenological way of philosophizing and the change in the attitude that Husserl described as the phenomenological reduction. In the article, this question is considered in two steps. Within the framework of the first step, we present phenomenological attitude as such which enables insight into transcendental subjectivity. Within the framework of the second step, ethos of phenomenology will be captivated as aspiration for living in truth. According to Husserl, the practical ethos of phenomenology is expressed as a need to purify the subject of useless prejudices.