Note: this assignment, due Mar. 3, is for students in Group II only.
Please respond to the following question in
approximately two pages (double spaced). (Needless to say this should
be your own original work.)
In Ideas §32, Husserl makes a connection
between ``attempted doubt'' and the peculiar modification or change in
attitude which he calls ἐποχή (epoche). On the other hand, he says that ἐποχή
is not exactly the same thing as Descartes's attempted doubt, because
``in the attempt to doubt ... the `excluding' is brought about in
and with a modification of counter positing, namely the `supposition'
of non-being'' (p. 59). In other words, the attempt to doubt, unlike
the ἐποχή, involves supposing that our
original positing was wrong. How, according to Husserl, is the
proposed phenomenological ἐποχή therefore related to (similar
to and different from) Descartes's universal attempted doubt (in
procedure, scope, and/or aim)?