L'esperienza di Dio secondo la fenomenologia di Edmund Husserl = The Experience of God According to the Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl

Abstract

Starting with the book E. Husserl, Prayer and the Divine. Ethical-religious Writings, edited by A. Ales Bello, this essay aims to highlight some decisive factors in Husserl's interpretation of God problem. After a brief reference to some of the fundamental implications connected to the topics (Augustine, the peculiarity of the phenomenological method, the tension between the God of philosophers and the God of faith, the investigation into the genesis of the religious attitude), Husserl's field of research is indicated as the experience of God, in response to the question: why do we think of seeking God? From this we derive that God is, at once, inside and outside of us, and that the origin of the experience we have of Him lies in a web of rational and irrational ingredients that constitutes the structure of transcendental subjectivity. Ultimately, that experience is a feeling or, rather, a presentiment that opens up an indeterminate horizon of meaning. It is accessed through religious consciousness and the faith that nourishes it, according to a perspective that Husserl defines as "atheological". This perspective oscillates, not without ambiguity, between philosophical or phenomenological faith and religious faith, jointed by the inherent necessity of God for the constitution of human subjectivities in the common surrounding world.