ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the constitution of material nature, stressing the role of the living body in the transition from the correlates of perception to physical idealizations. The subjectivity of such correlates to the living body highlighted by perceptual anomalies and by the intrinsic relativity of perceptual normality motivates the constitution of nature as described by physical theory. The chapter explores the relation between transcendental phenomenology and empirical knowledge, the way in which the latter can be accommodated within the former, and the relation between the naturalistic and the transcendental attitude. Pure or transcendental phenomenology of nature is the discipline investigating the eidos of the correlation between transcendental consciousness and any possible nature whatever, or, equivalently, the eidetic science of the transcendental phenomenon a nature in general. Consciousness is no longer a complex of immanent elements, but a structure of directedness stretched between the opposite poles of the pure ego and the intentional object.
