ABSTRACT

This chapter diagnoses the shortcomings of Sartre and Husserl and then introduce thier own solution to the problem. According to the insights of this first step, the For-itself determines as self-consciousness in the form of the pre-reflective cogito and consciousness of the object explained as negation of the In-itself. For the pre-reflective cogito determined as reflection-reflecting appeared to be completely intemporal. Husserl introduces for the first time such a two-dimensional order in the Bernauer Manuscripte, which he wrote in the years 1917 to 1918 and which were published in 2001. According to Husserl's new conception, the subject is conscious not only of the present original impression and the present retentions and protentions, but also of the former original impressions together with the corresponding former retentions and protentions. The transcendental judgment of the understanding comes to the conclusion that the row of the present contains data which once were only possible, then real, and in the future necessary for ever.