Toward a new metaphysical phenomenology: Jan Patočka’s Project

Abstract

The aim of this essay is to present the main features of Jan Patočka’s thought which lead to a metaphysical phenomenology. His phenomenological revision realizes an history of subject’s ontology. Inside this scenario an open-ing of being and world happens and the same opening could be found in the adult subject who encounters the absolute inside himself. Intentionality remains the key of phenomenological comprehension which in Patočka includes all natural elements and assumes the character of a theoretical universalization. The new metaphysical phenomenology suggested by Patočka conveys three leitmotiv: opening, possibility and freedom.