Belief and Affectivity. A Chapter of Philosophical Anthropology

• Autor(a) principal: San Martin, Javier
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Phenomenology, Humanities and Sciences
• Texto Completo: https://phenomenology.com.br/index.php/phe/article/view/139
• topic: Virada Emocional; Atitude Natural; Crença; Husserl; Scheler; Instinto Originais; Afetividade Primária; Emotional Turn; Natural Attitude; Belief; Husserl; Scheler; Original Instinct; Primary Affectivity; Giro Emocional; Actitud Natural; Creencia; Husserl; Scheler; Instintos originais; Afectividad Primária

The emotional turn is a sign of contemporary philosophy, also of phenomenology, in this case favored by the publication of several volumes in Husserliana related to this field. Scheler’s position on the primacy of feelings over knowledge led philosophers to see him in opposition to Husserl, who put the cognitive before the affective acts. In this context, my objective is to study the position of feelings in Husserl through the features of the natural attitude, one of the basic concepts of phenomenology. In the first place we will study what is the belief in Husserl as the fundamental feature of the natural attitude, whose core is the original belief in the world. In this sense it will be seen why experience is a belief. In the second section we will see why this belief is not something only theoretical but in itself includes an affec-tive element, which is implicit in the concept of attitude self. The attitude refers to action, and this includes knowing and valuing, so it is not merely cognitive but also affective, because if the world falters, the per-son is shocked, as when health is lost. Belief is confidence in the future and that is something affective. In the third section I will show the turn that we can show in Husserl in this regard, for which I go to the text of Hua XV, 385, which would show the result of a genetic phenomenology, in which an original structure animated by original kinesthesias and original instincts is postulated. The last ones are nothing but the ur-gencies that assail us and determine a primary affectivity that promotes a value investment of the world,Keywords: emotional turn; natural attitude; belief; Husserl; Scheler; original instincts; primary affectivity.