Facticity and Teleology: Explaining the Existential Motives of Husserl’s Philosophy

Key Points

• The paper aims to clarify the existential motivations in Husserl's later ethics and metaphysics through the lens of existential rationalism.
• Analyzed Husserl’s later works alongside Sartre’s and Jaspers’ philosophical concepts.
• Compared Husserl’s approaches to the notions of responsibility, guilt, and tragedy.
• Explored the universal teleological beliefs in Husserl's rational justification for ethical practices.
• Husserl addresses the absurdities of life while advocating for universal teleological beliefs.
• The paper delineates Husserl’s unique stance compared to Jaspers’ preservation of incompleteness.
• Husserl's philosophy blends existentialism with a transcendental phenomenological project.

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