The question of the relationship between Husserl and hedonism is a broad one. One might be tempted to say that it is as broad as the question of a phenomenological ethics as such. Accordingly, the aim of this
short paper cannot be that of providing a full account—be it historical or
systematical—of such a relationship. Rather, we will try to reconstruct, as
much as this is possible in the limited space allowed, the strategy behind
Husserl’s appraisal and criticism of hedonism in his late Freiburg lectures.
We will focus in particular on the way in which Husserl redefines some core
tenets of ethical hedonism and unexpectedly integrates within the
rationalistic framework of a phenomenological ethics revolving around the
central notion of value
