Internal Historicity and the Possibility of Knowledge:Centered on Husserl's Critical Vision of Kant
In The Origin of Geometry,Husserl makes a distinction between original and axiomatic evidence.The former is the evidence demanded by phenomenology,while the latter is the ground on which modern philosophy lays the foundation for idealized knowledge.Kant's grounding of knowledge through a priori empowerment of the subject,guided by axiomatic evidence,shows that he is in the basic position of modern philosophy,unable to reduce a priori conditions of what makes knowledge possible to its true priori foundation.Husserl returns to a prior foundation of idealized knowledge by means of retrospection and reduces it to the life-world realm of pre-knowledge.However,the life-world sphere of original evidence is not enough to be a prior condition of idealized knowledge,for it must not only return from the ready-made sphere of idealization,but also resorts to a static structural description in the same way as a prior empowerment of the subject in the Kantian sense.Only the internal historicity that essentially runs through the realm of the original and the realm of the ready-made can be a prior condition of how all idealized knowledge is possible in the sense of a dynamic genesis.