"A orientação natural, enquanto o ser do humano no mundo segundo todas as suas modalidades, é um resultado constitutivo e, enquanto tal, um momento integral da própria vida transcendental. Por outro lado, a "orientação transcendental" é ela própria um acontecimento no mundo pré-doado e pertence à vida psíquica real de um humano que ali filosofa. Dito de outro a redução tem ela própria sua situação mundana na qual emerge e na qual, de certo modo, permanece. Essa situação mundana é, portante, um momento estrutural inevitável da própria redução fenomenológica que recebe, dessa forma, enquanto esforço humano externo, um sentido a significatividade para a vida da derradeira aventura do conhecimento." Eugen Fink
Fink was born in 1905 as the son of a government official in Germany. He spent his first school years with an uncle who was a catholic priest. Fink attended a gymnasium in Konstanz where he succeeded with his extraordinary memory. After his graduation exam in 1925, he studied philosophy, history, German language and economics, initially at Münster and Berlin and then in Freiburg with Edmund Husserl.
Husserl's assistant, he was a representative of phenomenological idealism and later a follower of Martin Heidegger. He approached the problem of Being as a manifestation of the cosmic movement with Man being a participant in this movement. Fink called the philosophical problems pre-questions, that will lead to the true philosophy by the way of an ontological practice.