Original scientific paper

Fenomenology of Promising by Adolf Reinach

Iris Tićac ; Theology in Rijeka, Dislocated Studies of Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Rijeka, Croatia

Abstract

Adolf Reinach (1883-1917) is a significant representative of a »school« which could be called »Munich Phenomenology« or »Phenomenological Realism«.
One of Reinach’s major contributions to philosophy is the highly original theory of social act. We can characterize the originality of Reinach’s discovery in this way: most writers who dealt with those acts misunderstood them because they consider these acts as the composition of the outer side of this acts plus the presupposed internal act.
Although his work converges in a very interesting way with the work of the speech act tradition, the author wants to present the superiority of Reinach’s theory. Reinach’s superiority to the philosophers dealing with the speech act tradition in the analiysis of promising derives from his phenomenological orientation. This is why this paper deals with Reinach’s social acts, especially as they are typified in the act of promising.
While the speech act philosophers tend to explain the act of promising as a product of constitutive rules, Reinach develops the apriori philosophy of acts. For Reinach, promising is ultimate and irreducibile datum. A comparison of Reinach with speech act philosophers shows that it is he who for the first time achieved a full philosophical prise de conciense of promising as social act.

Keywords

social act; act of promising; claim; obligation; speech act

Hrčak ID:

27917

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/27917

Publication date:

2.7.2003.

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