我的奮鬥

In order to see more clearly the phenomenological significance of Descartes’ proof of the existence of God and the sense in which, contrary to the ordinary opinion that Husserlian phenomenology can be regarded as the consummation and completion of modern philosophy founded by Descartes, and therefore the former’s incoherence, best revealed by Husserl’s idealist deviation from its original intention to lay itself “open to the world”, to lead us “back to the things themselves”, has heralded the total bankruptcy of any attempt such as Descartes’ to undertake a first-personal, cogito-based approach to philosophy, Descartes himself had already contributed some ideas to a decisive breakthrough which might take us well beyond Husserl’s own vision, to the point where a further development of phenomenology is always and already made possible, it would then be necessary for us to examine once more Descartes’ proof of the existence of God in his Third Meditation.