Abstract
Husserl and Hume shared the conviction that up to now philosophy has failed to provide, as it ought to, an indubitable foundation for the sciences and even all human experience. Hume considered it disgraceful that “. . . philosophy should not yet have fixed, beyond controversy, the foundations of morals, reasoning, and criticism . . .”1 Husserl demands that philosophy be “. . . according to its essence, a science of true beginnings, of origins . . . The science concerned with the radical must also be radical in its procedure, and this in every respect.”2 Yet, the history of Western thought testifies to the failure to establish such a foundational philosophy. This failure . . . implies the crisis of all modern sciences as members of the philosophical universe; at first a latent, then a more and more prominent crisis of European humanity itself in respect to the total meaningfulness of its cultural life, its total „Existenz“.3
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