ABSTRACT
Husserl's most disputed thought doubtlessly was and is the thought of "absolute consciousness," the basic thought of the Ideas which permitted this philosophy to be characterized as idealism. The idea of phenomenology, which Husserl developed under this title in the Five Lectures of 1907, is established or "motivated" by the need for a metaphysics. Husserl's idea of metaphysics is the idea of a science of beings in an absolute sense. In accordance with the essential meaning of its being, real being in principle excludes the possibility of its absolute givenness. Certainly there is a difference between absolute and relative being. Husserl denies the absolute being of the real on the basis of affirming the independent mode of existence of the real as the "being-in-itself" of the transcendent which in principle excludes the possibility of its absolute givenness.
