Note: this assignment is for students in Groups I and II only.
Please respond to the following question in
approximately two pages (double spaced). (Needless to say this should
be your own original work.)
Consider the following relationships: (a) between a
spherical body (spherical sensible thing) and its spherical shape; (b)
between the spherical shape of an individual body and the essence,
sphere; (c) between the essence sphere and the form,
essence. Each of these might be described as a relationship
between something concrete and something abstract, and each of (b) and
(c) might be described as the relationship between something
particular (or singular) and something more universal. Explain why
Husserl would nevertheless consider these to be examples of three very
different relationships. (To answer you will probably want to use Ideas §13 and §15, and perhaps also some of the readings from
the Logical Investigations, especially from the Third
Investigation.)