Bolzano and the Early Husserl

The paper deals with the historical and philosophical aspect of the relationship between the work of Bernard Bolzano and the early Edmund Husserl. A short historical sketch is followed by a discussion of the main philosophical motives of Bolzano’s work that inspired Husserl’s thought – idea of the pure logic, rejection of the logical psychologism, concept of the ideal content of representation. The final section of the paper explains the fundamental difference of both thinkers – Bolzano’s “phenomenological naivety”