This work frequently refers to the audience, the author, and other thinkers as "beginning philosophers," and its third and fourth sections build up to the assertion that a certain philosophical method is equivalent to transcendental idealism.
This work frequently refers to the audience, the author, and other thinkers as "beginning philosophers," and its third and fourth sections build up to the assertion that a certain philosophical method is equivalent to transcendental idealism. Its fifth and longest section is dedicated to addressing the "grave objection" of the problem of "other egos," according to which this work's project becomes solipsistic. This work's first section analyzes conditions of the apodicticity of evidence and faults a philosophical forerunner for failing to make the "transcendental turn." It describes a method that uses imaginative "free variation" to identify essential compoennts of a thing, which its author would  later call "eidetic reduction." In its method, the author "comprehends [himself] purely: as ego," called the epoche. Based on two lectures delivered at the Sorbonne and subtitled "An Introduction to Phenomenology," FTP, name this late text by Edmund Husserl modeled on a similarly titled work by Rene Descartes.
This work frequently refers to the audience, the author, and other thinkers as "beginning philosophers," and its third and fourth sections build up to the assertion that a certain philosophical method is equivalent to transcendental idealism.
Cartesian Meditations