ON THE TELEOLOGICAL DOCTRINE OF THE SCIENCES IN HUSSERL’S PHENOMENOLOGY

Abstract

Abstract: The present paper approaches the teleological doctrine of sciences in Husserl’s phenomenology. Divided into two main parts, the article initially deals with the double movement of sciences: the possibility of returning to a demonstrated knowledge and the growing advance, guided by the general teleological idea of “authentic science”. In the second part, the paper approaches the evolution of the natural sciences through the elaboration and permanent confirmation of its hypotheses, in an infinite progress of achievements towards an “infinitely distant” pole. The paper also highlights the phenomenological meaning of this progress, as well as its propaedeutic implications in Husserl’s phenomenology.

Keywords: Edmund Husserl. Science. Teleology. Infinite. Progress.