the study of the will in the beginnings of the munich phenomenology

• Pablo Sahagún-Kunhardt

  Universidad Panamericana. Instituto de Humanidades. Jalisco, México.

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7549-7427

Pfänder is one of the leading thinkers of the Munich school of phenomenology and one of Husserl's most esteemed colleagues. In 1931 Manuel García Morente translated into Spanish two works by Pfänder with direct reference to the will - Phänomenologie des Wollens (1900) and Motive und Motivation (1911). The description made by the Munich phenomenologist of the act of the will is fed by his psychological studies and connects with phenomenology, incipient at that time. In this article, after contextualizing the subject in the beginnings of phenomenology in Munich, it is explained what Pfänder understands by striving (tending) in a broad sense, as well as the necessary assumptions for such a phenomenon. Finally, the parts of the analysis that our author makes of the act of will are systematically exposed.

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