Affective life and value consciousness: remarks on the constitutive genesis of the axiological subjectivity in Husserl´s phenomenology

Abstract

The paper presents the problem of the axiological objectivity in accordance to Husserl´s phenomenology, following a systematization of the genetic constitution of the unity of the value. In order to suggest this idea, it is taken in consideration a group of unpublished research manuscripts on value consciousness and affective life. The main aim of the paper is to show how the constitution of the unity of values is given through the progressive development of different layers of apperception of value and affective horizons. For that purpose, the paper starts with the study of the intentional structure of the acts of value and their objective correlates; afterwards, it is analyzed the fulfillment of such acts in relation to the subject of progressive value apperceptions is linked to the development of emotive dispositions through horizons, finally, it is suggested the map of a genetic phenomenological research of the axiological sphere in accordance to Husserl´s indication in his letter to Gerda Walther. The paper closes pointing out how the progressive exhibition of values through horizons development involves the genesis of emotive dispositions and permanent convictions that determine the I into the form of the individual subjectivity of a concrete person.