Abstract

This chapter explains anticipation, the type of futurity distinct to the active level of constituting consciousness. The chapter begins by laying out the essential characteristics of an act of anticipation. Next, building on the work of Jean-Yves Lacoste, the chapter examines the way in which anticipation gives itself in all human experience as (pre-) givenness and (pre-) experience, and hence gives itself in the mode of a promise. This entails that something fundamentally non-epistemological-the promise-is at work in phenomenology, something that some people will deem "ethical."

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