The Person and the Common Life

The Husserl-based social ethics claims that the properly philosophical life - ie one lived within the noetic-noematic field - is not cut off from action. Indeed, the ethical and political dimensions of the person are disclosed through various reductions. At the passive-synthetic level as well as at the higher founded levels of personal constitution a basic sense of will emerges, the "telos" of which is a godly intersubjective self-ideal. This "truth of will" is inseparably an "ought" and an "is" involving moral categoriality as a way of letting the good of others be part of one's own. Both moral categoriality and the "polis" actuate the latent first-person plural dative of manifestation which emerges with a common world. Thereby they actuate also senses of the common life which can develop to community as a higher-order person. This leads to a eutopian anti-statist theory of the "polis" and common good which has affinity with some communitarian-anarchist and Green views.