Anthropology as a Strict Science? To the question of the methodological substantiation of philosophical anthropology

Article 1. E. Husserl. Phenomenology as substantiation for anthropology

Abstract

The article discusses the problem of methodological substantiation of philosophical anthropology as a science. The article is the first in the series of works devoted to this topic. This paper discusses the experience of E. Husserl substantiating the ideal of strict science on the example of his substantiation of phenomenology and the phenomenological method and an attempt to extend this method on the science of man. The article shows that in striving to substantiate strict science, the founder of phenomenology actually comes to conclusions, known in ancient philosophy, according to which human philosophy is built not as a teaching and concept, but as a practice of taking care for oneself, it somehow leads to the fact that the philosopher himself builds the rules and norms of his life, dedicated to the service of philosophy and lined up according to the norms of the practices of care, which experience is known in the history of philosophy, starting with the Roman Stoics.

The article shows that E. Husserl actually repeated the ideal of philosophy as spiritual asceticism by his life, setting an example of the discipline of mind.