ONTOLOGY OF THE WILL — GEIGER, PFÄNDER, HUSSERL

A phenomenological approach to the ontology of will could be rendered along three positions: Firstly, willing I is completely immanent in its experience, such that one can only will, and know wills, by reflecting on actual experience willing. Secondly, hold while being analyzable as a conscious phenomenon, itself real psychic force driving one’s motivations actions without necessarily aware it. The third position would argue reality not exhausted way it experienced, but causes are part complete investigation. discuss phenomenology Alexander Pfänder, Moritz Geiger Edmund Husserl this realist-transcendentalist spectrum. My basic concern here critical examination an entity beyond which responsible for experienced volitions. proceed steps, based distinction volitions into parts. ask what antecedes volition order determine phenomenal ontological causes. analysis apperception clarifies sense “I” or cause volition. Thirdly, discussion realization address role subsequently plays process fulfilling intent. paper develops ways “willing I” limits shapes conception intentional relation between desiring consciousness contents.