How do I transcend my presuppostions? Can I do that? How?
Hussert’s idea was to “bracket” every idea or perception or whatever-you-want-to-call-it that proceeded from presuppositions we hold dear (or just can’t put aside). One of mine was a package of prescriptions about being a well-mannered middle-class white Protestant. There were things I could and couldn’t do. They were based on cultural theories springing from my parents’ and grandparents’ and so on back to the beginning of time. Is it possible to bracket and get free of these presuppositions? Is it desirable to do this? What happens to our inherited culture when we try to do this?
If we could bracket everything that is presuppositional, could we become transparent, invisible, insubstantial, ephemeral, free?
