Unfolding

INTRODUCTION      There are many versions of phenomenology that came after and surprisingly before Husserl mentioned it as his philosophy. Hegel used the term phenomenology in his Phenomenology of the Spirit yet we ponder was this the phenomenology that Husserl is stressing? Moreover, Husserls predecessors such as Kant also used the same term. Husserl embraced phenomenology and even baptized the term much later in his works for he was concerned first in creating arguments that are against the trend of psychologism during his time. Psychologism was a grand perversion of empiricism in a way that it has placed all into contingency without a way out. Most of Husserl’s early works are devoted into giving explanations against psychologism.  “His preoccupation with refuting ‘naturalism’ and ‘psychologism’ is the dominant theme in the first volume of  Logische Unterschungen . ” [1] Moreso, he wish to save the crisis that is looming especially that psychologism is also paired with growing

INTRODUCTION      Prior to the rise of globalization and even to statehood people already have the tendency to organize towards a collective. If we were to hypothesize the early man in his primitive state, man as a social being cannot be done away with. There was no point in our history that man was a stand alone, thus the saying ‘no man is an island’ is true. Moreover, in the history of man, he has come to terms with others forming societies that reflects a merger of common interest but to the point that that sociability eventually leads to struggles between societies, whether the agenda be that of racial, economic, class, religious or the political. It cannot be undone that man is a social being and facing the two sides of the coin for survival whether through collective honourable efforts or that of bloody wars.      This then begs the question of when man can achieve a kind of socialization that is without violence. Even though that man in his organization can do away with