La realtà tra essenza ed esperienza

(Reality between Essence and Experience)

Abstract

Ever since the invitation, in the Logical Investigations, to “return to the things themselves,” the intention of the “new science” or phenomenology is clearly to establish, against all forms of subjectivism, that the thing is a phenomenon for consciousness. This appearance, however, does not imply that reality is to be understood as a mere matter of consciousness. Thing and consciousness rather meet as two distinct and irreducible identities. Each receives its sense by meeting the other within a horizon that is exactly between two different poles, which are independent but essentially correlated. The constitutive correlation – the intentional meeting between the two entities – allows for the formulation of a new concept of reality. Reality is the result of this intentional meeting: a consciousness perceives and experiences an essence in its identity. This essence “gives itself” directly to a consciousness that “responds to its references” and considers the self-giving of the thing.