Phenomenology as a First Philosophy

Abstract

The expression “metaphysics of facticity” denotes a phenomenology that rigorously describes the diverse categories of experience. To outline this “first philosophy” of a phenomenological nature, the author begins with Husserl’s insights, though he inverts the thesis concerning the primacy of possibility over reality, of eidos over factum. Thus, the metaphysics of facticity no longer rests upon a first principle, substance or subject, from which the facts of experience would be deduced or derived; rather, it relies on primal facts, whose distinctive character consists in their being events of appearance, whose structure has not yet been described phenomenologically.