ABSTRACT
This chapter exposes the reflexive nature of Roy Harris’s integrational framework through an analysis of its links to Alfred Schutz’s social phenomenology. The subject’s role, the subject’s first-person perspective, and the perspectival discrepancies are cast light on. It is also demonstrated that the issues with the reflexive framework – the issues of intersubjectivity and inner temporality, can be solved without a recourse to the postulation of objective and uniformly shared ideal types, but through an examination of these cognitive attributes of human beings: the other-orientedness, the capacity to remember and retrospect, and the ability to foresee prospective occurrences. By comparing Harris and Schutz, this chapter reveals an affinity between Harris’s integrationism and Schutz’s social phenomenology.
