"The life-world is the natural world - in the attitude of natural life we are living functioning subjects together in an open circle of other functioning subjects. Everything objective about the life-world is subjective givenness, our possession, mine, the other's, and everyone's together".
Edmund Husserl, "Supplement XIII" in Ideas II, p. 385.
"Pre-scientifically, in everyday sense-experience, the world is given in a subjectively relative way. Each of us has his own appearances; and for each of us they count as that which actually is. In dealing with one another, we have long since become aware of this discrepancy between our various ontic validities. But we do not think that, because of this, there are many worlds. Necessarily, we believe in the world, whose things appear to us differently but are the same." (p. 23)
"Consciously we always live in the life-world; normally there is no reason to make it explicitly thematic for ourselves universally as world." (p. 379)
Edmund Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy, trans. David Carr (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1970).
"It is essentially impossible to find men in any 'pre-worldly' state, because to be human, to be aware of oneself as a man and to exist as a human self, is precisely to live on the basis of a world."
Ludwig Landgrebe, 'The World as a Phenomenological Problem', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Vol. 1 No. 1 (September 1940), 38-58.
"The concept of the life-world is the antithesis of all objectivism. It is an essentially historical concept, which does not refer to the universe of being, to the 'existent world'... the life-world means something else, namely the whole in which we live as historical creatures."
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method, 2nd rev. edn., trans. Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall (London: Sheed and Ward, 1989), p. 247.
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