THE BLIND OR SYMBOLIC THINKING IN EDMUND HUSSERL’S EARLY PHILOSOPHY

BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY OF ARITHMETIC AND LOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS

Abstract

This paper examines the concept of symbolic thought in Edmund Husserl’s early philosophy. This is defined in very different ways in the early writings of the philosopher. Thus, on the one hand, the author maintains that this way of thinking is constituted from certain concomitant intuitions. But, on the other hand, that it is a thought that lacks an absolute mode of intuition. By means of a review of the writings of this period, such as Philosophy of Arithmetic and Logical Investigations, it is concluded that the discussion that Husserl establishes with himself is the origin of the distinction between symbolic act and intuitive act, that is, of the more general division of objectifying acts.