This paper answers, with reference to a large body of Edmund Husserl's
philosophical writings, the question of what, according
to Husserl, is the properly
philosophical attitude. It contrasts this with what he maintains is our 'natural attitude'. The paper argues that, for Husserl, a more philosophical attitude enables a 'first philosophy,' a rigorous and presupposition-less philosophy, and more pertinently, makes distinct the previously obscured realm of pure
transcendental consciousness. The author of this paper offers his own brief criticisms of these views.