Notes on Husserl’s Idealismus in the Logische Untersuchungen (Via Lotze’s Interpretation of Plato)

Abstract

In the following paper we will seek to understand what Edmund Husserl, in his second Logical Investigation, refers to as “idealism”, against the backdrop of Rudolf Hermann Lotze’s interpretation of Plato’s doctrine of Ideas in the third book of his Logic. This will raise not only the question of Husserl’s indebtedness to Lotze with respect to the Ideenhlehre in terms of Geltung, but first and foremost that of the “Platonism” of the idealism defended in his first masterpiece.