Abstract
Phenomenology is experience-based inquiry to determine whether the distinguishable is separable. Phenomenology assesses basic concepts. Analysis draws distinctions, say between shape and color, but phenomenology tells us whether what we distinguish is separable. Analysis and phenomenology are necessary aspects of thinking. Faulty phenomenology makes false moves. Factoring philosophy treats mind and world as separable. When mind is factored from the world, philosophy turns skeptical, struggling to make sense of knowledge, morality, and society. Factoring philosophy means loss of the world, the subject, the social, and loss of public purpose. Just enough phenomenology draws on Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, and Davidson. Being-in-the-world, being-with-others, and using things purposefully belong to just enough phenomenology. Marx’s historical materialist insistence on specific social forms and purposes is a phenomenological watershed. Just enough phenomenology acknowledges capital as the form of wealth that shapes modern society in pervasive ways. Just enough phenomenology restores self, world, and public purpose.