ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses E. Husserl’s intentional arrow as the foundation for M. Heidegger’s holistic concept of being-in-the-world and present an understanding of self-observation that relies on the phenomenological concepts. It explores self-observation as a type of phenomenological reduction with a particular goal, or focus, for that reduction. The chapter provides a detailed example of this reduction and explains how phenomenological reduction overcomes some problems of dualism. The chapter also discusses Husserl’s intentional arrow even though scholars debate Husserl’s trend toward dualism. It presents Husserl’s notion of reduction, which will be important in developing a phenomenological understanding of self-observation and shows how being-in-the-world alters Husserl’s notion of reduction as well. The chapter suggests how Heidegger’s notion of being-in-the-world builds on Husserl’s intentional arrow that subject and object are no longer ontologically distinct categories. The chapter analyses the transition from Cartesian dualism to phenomenology.
