2024/12/19 by Trizio, Emiliano
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Diverse Academia and Research Topics #Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy #Philosophy and Historical Thought
paper · doi:10.6093/1593-7178/11408
openalex publication_date 2024/12/19 · openalex created_date 2025/12/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
This article approaches Husserl’s critique of Descartes by focusing on the issue of the scientificity of philosophy. In particular, it consists in an attempt to answer the following three questions: 1) What is the historical origin of the unprecedented form of objectivism that characterizes Descartes’ philosophy, and, after him, the entire modern rationalist tradition? 2) How did this form of objectivism shape the outcomes of Descartes’ thought, and caused him to miss the goal of a genuinely scientific universal philosophy? 3) How did Descartes’ objectivism become intertwined with a metaphysics based on the concept of substance, i.e., a metaphysics that transcendental phenomenology has the task of overcoming? Keywords: Descartes, Husserl, Metaphysics, Objectivism, Substance