German philosopher who founded phenomenology — the rigorous description of the structures of consciousness — and whose epoché (bracketing of the natural attitude) opened a new domain of philosophical investigation.
The epoché: suspend the natural attitude (taking the world for granted) to reveal the transcendental structures of consciousness. Intentionality: every act of consciousness is a noetic act directed toward a noematic content. The lifeworld: the pre-theoretical world of lived experience is the ground for all theoretical construction. Time-consciousness: the living present has protentions and retentions that constitute the flow of time.
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