SARTRE BETWEEN PHENOMENOLOGICAL REFLECTION AND PURE REFLECTION

Abstract

It is known that Sartre, although having considered himself as a phenomenologist for some years, criticizes explicitly some positions held by Husserl, such as those related to the pure ego. I would like to point in this ar-ticle to a less noted although more basic divergence (included in The tran-scendence of the ego) between these authors, namely, the divergence related to the interpretation of the evidence criterion that should guide reflection. I in-tend to show that by assuming a much stronger criterion than Husserl’s, Sar-tre is committed to accept problematic positions, which will only be overthrown in Sketch for a theory of the emotions.