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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779731003321

Titolo

Intersubjectivity and objectivity in Adam Smith and Edmund Husserl [[electronic resource] ] : a collection of essays / / Christel Fricke, Dagfinn Føllesdal (eds)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt, : Ontos Verlag, 2012

ISBN

3-11-032594-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Collana

Philosophische Forschung ; ; Bd. 8

Altri autori (Persone)

FrickeChristel

FøllesdalDagfinn

Disciplina

170.92/2

Soggetti

Intersubjectivity

Objectivity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. A Phenomenological Approach to Intersubjectivity in the Sciences / Kjosavik, Frode -- 2. Husserl's Approaches to Volitional Consciousness / Peucker, Henning -- 3. "We-Subjectivity": Husserl on Community and Communal Constitution / McIntyre, Ronald -- 4. Husserl on Understanding Persons / Beyer, Christian -- 5. Imagination and Appresentation, Sympathy and Empathy in Smith and Husserl / Drummond, John J. -- 6. Mengzi (Mencius), Adam Smith and Edmund Husserl on Sympathy and Conscience / Kern, Iso -- 7. Overcoming Disagreement - Adam Smith and Edmund Husserl on Strategies of Justifying Descriptive and Evaluative Judgments / Fricke, Christel -- 8. Intersubjectivity and Moral Judgment in Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments / Brown, Vivienne -- 9. Sympathy in Hume and Smith: A Contrast, Critique, and Reconstruction / Fleischacker, Sam -- Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Can we have objective knowledge of the world? Can we understand what is morally right or wrong? Yes, to some extent. This is the answer given by Adam Smith and Edmund Husserl. Both rejected David Hume's skeptical account of what we can hope to understand. But they held his empirical method in high regard, inquiring into the way we perceive and emotionally experience the world, into the nature and function of



human empathy and sympathy and the role of the imagination in processes of intersubjective understanding. The challenge is to overcome the natural constraints of perceptual and emotional e