Abstract

This paper deals with the Munich phenomenologist Johannes Daubert’s attitude towards Husserl’s turn to idealismIdealism as well as the problem of reality, taking Karl Schuhmann and Barry Smith’s article AgainstIdealismIdealism: Johannes Daubert vs. Husserl’s Ideas I as its point of departure. Indeed, the present work constitutes a supplement or addendum to Schuhmann and Smith’s text, relating the theses presented therein to Daubert’s investigations into the issue of questioning. Here we bring together two overarching motifs found in Daubert’s vast unpublished writings, namely “the consciousness of realityConsciousness of reality [WirklichkeitsbewusstseinConsciousness of reality ]” and the problem of the question. According to Daubert, it is not the case that being is constituted on the level of transcendental consciousness, the latter he regarded as purely fictitious. Instead, being is found in opennessOpenness, which is in turn established by the direct, felt encounter of incarnate human beings with reality.