Understanding the Notion of Prejudices and Biases Through a Phenomenological Lens

The objective of Edmund Husserl was to create a realm wherein the philosophical dictums are not considered merely as intellectual speculations bereft of reasoned justification, but rather to make philosophy as rigorous and qualitative science, something that this paper will reflect upon. Husserl, after taking a conclusive diagnosis of the historical view of the situation, asserts: at no time… has philosophy been able to satisfy the ambition to be a rigorous science. Husserl understood that deep within the fragments of our mind, lies plethora of preconceived notions that are penetrating into our conscience that color one’s perceptions. It happens in a subtle way, sometimes even we could not grasp the bias that we have expressed in our judgements concerning a given content of consciousness. In an excerpt from “Philosophy of Rigorous Science” he contends: Aim of philosophy is to be science of the sciences… discipline which will fulfil humanity’s imperishable demand for pure and absolute knowledge of the universe. This paper endeavours to explain how we can achieve these facets through the help of Husseralian phenomenology.