Abstract
What is the meaning of talking about Europe today? What are the possible ways of intercultural coexistence? Is this 'coexistence', 'tolerance', 'com-prehension' or 'com-union'? Is there reciprocity? These practical issues are addressed through the theoretical analysis of the idea of Europe in Husserl, which is nothing but the idea of a specific community, a 'community of philosophers' producing the theoretical-practical renewal of the origin of philosophy. Therefore, the 'philosophy of Europe' is a possible universality of rationality insofar as it is ethical thinking, where being a philosopher is understood in the broadest sense of the term as any person who, by 'whatever means', chooses an intention ethically directed towards humanitas.
Not a geo-political Europe, but an ethical Europe is the political challenge of Husserlian phenomenology, for which the motivating telos is the shared happiness, which can only exist in its own becoming through the individuals who experience it in the first person. What has to say such an idea of Europe to de-colonized thinking? What does 'universality in the first person' mean? Does it remain a racist Eurocentric approach? Finally, the Husserlian concept of Europe will be thematized in its performative meaning within the Australasian context of Indigenous Studies.