On the Foundational Compatibility of Phenomenology and Thomism

• Autorzy: Wagner Daniel C.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Jacques Maritain criticized Husserl’s phenomenological method—the ἔποχή—as being incompatible with the realism of St. Thomas Aquinas. Maritain equated phenomenology with idealism, holding that it universally negates the existence of known objects as things in the world. Not surprisingly, then, a tendency has arisen in the thought of Thomists commenting on Karol Wojtyła’s phenomenological-Thomism to distance Wojtyła’s method from that of Husserl. However, since Wojtyła himself saw fit to appropriate the phenomenological method, Thomists will do well to reevaluate Husserl’s ἔποχή. This study shows that Husserl’s phenomenology is formulated as an Aristotelian science, consciously presupposing the existence of its subject matter and not universally negating the existence of known objects as things in the world. The ἔποχή, thus, is compatible with the realism of the Angelic Doctor, and the phenomenological-Thomism of Karol Wojtyła stands on firm realist ground.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Edmund Husserl; Karol Wojtyła; Thomism; phenomenology; epoche; idealism; realism

• Wydawca: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Czasopismo: Studia Gilsoniana
• Rocznik: 2021
• Tom: 10
• Numer: 3
• Strony: 579-607

Daty

wydano

2021-09-30

Twórcy

autor

Wagner Daniel C.

• Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI, USA

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