Abstract
“Foundedness” and “Motivation” are two fundamental notions in phenomenology.1 But what is the relationship between them? It seems to be quite difficult to find an answer to this question in the existing literature of phenomenology. For example, no one can deny that these two concepts play important roles in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception. But to this question Merleau-Ponty did not provide any answer. He did not even give us any thematic characterizations of both concepts, except for some short notes of clarification. The lack of an explicit clarification of the relationship between “foundedness” and “motivation” often makes one wonder if these two concepts are synonymous or interchangeable. Our task here is to trace back the problem in the phenomenology of Husserl and to provide a clarification of these two concepts, so that a precise relationship between them can be determined.
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