A causalidade no mundo da experiência primordial, segundo Aron Gurwitsch

Em um trecho de seu texto dedicado à concepção husserliana de psicologia , Gurwitsch comenta a causalidade de acordo com a pesquisa sobre a experiência primordial (do Lebenswelt):

What has been said before concerning the appearance of every perceptual thing under the all-encompassing world-horizon as well as concerning the oneness and, therefore, unity of the world holds a priori and with eidetic necessity. By allowing for space and time, the unity of the world, initially introduced in a rather general and unspecified manner, undergoes a first specification. A further specification concerns causality. Things have typical ways of regularly behaving under certain conditions, especially conditions of change in their circumstances. Such typical ways of behavior are expressed by the properties attributed to things – mechanical properties (elasticity), thermal properties (good or poor conductivity), magnetic, electric, and other properties. By the same token, the dependence of a thing on what happens in its circumstances appears as an eidetic or a priori necessity. The circumstantial horizon thus proves a causal horizon. Of course, the specific behavior or the law of such behavior in a concrete case or type of concrete cases can be discovered only through empirical observation. Eidetic necessity reaches no further than the general principle that things regularly display a typical behavior concomitantly with changes in their circumstances. By virtue of that principle, the unity of the world is further specified as a contextual unity which is more than the unity of an aggregate – which it would be on the basis of spatiotemporality alone. (Gurwitsch, 1974/1966, p. 90).

Referência: GURWITSCH, Aron. Edmund Husserl’s Conception of Phenomenological Psychology. In: GURWITSCH, Aron; EMBREE, Lester (Ed.). Phenomenology and the Theory of Science, pp. 77-105. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1974. <Originalmente publicado, com o mesmo título, em Review of Metaphysics, Vol. XIX (1966), um estudo crítico sobre as conferências de Husserl dedicadas à psicologia fenomenológica: Phänomenologische Psychologie, ed. Walter Biemel, Husserliana IX (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1962)>.