Phänomenologie als Platonismus

Zu den Platonischen Wesensmomenten der Philosophie Edmund Husserls

Thomas Arnold

Husserl repeatedly invokes Plato as the founder of European philosophy, but never systematically elaborates phenomenology’s connections to Platonism. This study examines these connections, and shows that Husserl rightly views phenomenology as the ultimate inheritor of the original Platonic gift of philosophy. Many elements of phenomenology take on new meanings against the backdrop of their Platonic origins.