This paper aims to present how, in a bid to inherit philosophy philosophically, the methodology or ‘phenomenological vision’ of two phenomenological writers, early Husserl and early Heidegger, aim to take philosophical investigation ‘back to the things themselves’: to the world closest to us- as it is experienced by us-and to what is already only implicit in it. I aim to sketch out Husserl’s methodology by applying his Phenomenological Reduction to the visual experience of a hammer in order to indicate how description reveals the essential structure of consciousness of visual experience; and Heidegger’s Interpretation of Dasein’s preontological understanding of being in his average everyday encounter with a hammer to indicate that the implicit essential structure operative in this understanding is the unitary phenomenon of being-in-the-world through which the being of these beings as ready-to-hand is manifest.
