Descartes and Husserl both failed by stopping at the cogito’s functional description

Evidence

Husserl did share Heidegger’s scale of ambition, but he had relocated everything in his idealist cavern. For Heidegger, that was a fatal mistake: Husserl had bracketed out the wrong thing. He had bracketed out Being, the one thing that is indispensable. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 220 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Heidegger’s break with Husserl hinged on what each bracketed out — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist CafĂ©: Freedom,…, 220

Broader Connections