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  • Intuition or interpretation?! Husserl's phenomenology
    I understand "the natural attitude" as the normal attitude that one takes when going about everyday life and engaging in common perceptions. In the phenomenological attitude, we examine how things present themselves in this natural attitude:

    "The natural attitude is the focus we have when we are involved in our original, world-directed stance, when we intend things, situations, facts, and any other kinds of objects. The natural attitude is, we might say, the default perspective, the one we start off from, the one we are in originally. We do not move into it from anything more basic. The phenomenological attitude, on the other hand, is the focus we have when we reflect upon the natural attitude and all the intentionalities that occur within it. It is within the phenomenological attitude that we carry out philosophical analyses"(Sokolowski, 1999, p. 42).

    Sokolowski, R. (1999). Introduction to Phenomenology. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press.