Man-the-Creator and His Triple Telos

Abstract

The eidetic intuition instrumental in both the ontological and the transcendental phenomenological analysis gains its clarity and apodictic evidence by focusing upon the object in its intentional, that is, strictly rational, ideal skeleton in which it “appears” within constitutive consciousness. Although we may retrace the steps of its transcendental constitution, that is, the progress of its origin within intentional consciousness, yet these origins — or “appearances” — themselves are repetitive. This “repetitiveness” — as opposed to the uniqueness of the actual origination in existence of the real individual being — is the very condition upon which the phenomenological retracing of the intentional constructive progress of the object rests. Indeed, it seems, first, that we may intentionally follow only the genesis of an object preconceived as having been already accomplished in its constructive process. Second, if in doing so we find an intersubjective consensus it is because what we do follow is beyond the hic and nunc of the concrete existential genesis: what the intentional analysis pursues consists merely of the rational itinerary of its articulations insofar as it retrieves segment by segment the phases of its structures as reproduced.