How is aristotle`s conception of physis implicated in Husserl`s phenomenology? - With special consideration given to Husserl`s thought concerning ethics

Abstract

This paper starts with an explanation of Aristotle`s conception of physis, namely as nature where the essence or form comes out of matter, but not, like techne, out of a craftsman`s thinking. Then I try to point out how this conception is implicated in Husserl`s phenomenology. We see that Husserl`s phenomenological method lets us come back to the things themselves. We can experience them as physis. But what and how can the transcendental subjectivity, being what Husserl`s phenomenological method aims to expose, contribute to it?