ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author proposes a number of clarifications and observations necessary for the advancement of his principal thesis that the political community and the life-world are coterminous. Important clarifications relevant to the author's thesis are given through a discussion of potential difficulties. He lays out in a more direct manner the reasons for concluding that the world-constituting intersubjective community is naturally and normally the political community. In terms of political philosophy, rejecting the possibility that a life-world could be constituted by humanity would seem to mean that the ideal liberal “idea of society as a system of fair cooperation,” which in principle denies the political community any real existence, necessarily leads to a worldless conception of politics. Admittedly, until such a phenomenology of the political is carried out, the author's thesis rests upon mere definition: the political community is by definition that one which constitutes the life-world through its transcendental intersubjectivity.
