Between the empirical and divine, engage with the empirical to access the divine than negate the empirical to experience divinity.
Joseph J Kockelmans, in his book, Edmund Husserl's Phenomenology, represents wide-spread conceptions in Husserlian scholarship, such as that the transcendental reduction was necessary to bring about a rigorous a priori science of phenomenology. This is to be distinguished from the natural attitude or empirical positivism and relativism of the sciences in Husserl's time. Critics such as Kockelmans uphold Husserl's transcendental-empirical distinction, as they see the need to distinguish phenomenology as an a priori science, or transcendental idealism, from the natural attitude or empirical, positivistic, and hence relative and contingent sciences. As we will ex
