ABSTRACT
The disconnexion from Nature was for us the methodological means whereby the direction of the mental glance upon the pure transcendental consciousness becomes at all possible. Now that we have brought it within the focus of mental vision, it still remains useful to consider, conversely, what in general, in the interests of an inquiry into the nature of pure consciousness, must remain disconnected, and whether the necessary disconnexion concerns the sphere of Nature only. From the side of the phenomenological science which we propose to establish, this amounts to the query, “Which sciences does it draw from whilst leaving its pure meaning unimpaired? Which should it depend on as already given, and which should it not depend on? Which then need to be bracketed?” It lies in the peculiar and essential nature of phenomenology as a science of “origins” that such questions of method which lie remote from the interest of every unsophisticated (“dogmatic”) science must in its own case be a matter of careful reflexion.
