FROM INGENUOUS REALISM TO DANGEROUS INGENUOUSNESS: THE EUROPEAN CRISIS AND TELEOLOGY ACCORDING TO HUSSERL

Abstract

This paper discusses Husserl's critique of the doctrine of naturalism, linking this critique of the origins of phenomenology to the period of reflection on the European crisis. More specifically, this paper investigates the hypothe­sis of an inseparability between the philosophically ingenuous realism of the positive sciences (adopted by the natural sciences as well as by the human sciences) and the dangerous ingenuousness of such sciences (whose effects can be observed in the shaping of European humanity, during the first half of the 20th century). Such a hypothesis would enable us to investigate the impetus of Husserl's criticism of naturalism that manifests the idea of a “hidden teleology” of the European humanity.