Note: this assignment is for students in Group IV only.
Please respond to the following question in
approximately two pages (double spaced). (Needless to say this should
be your own original work.)
In §49 of the Ideas, p. 110, Husserl says
that an ``annihilation of the world'' would mean that consciousness
would be ``modified,'' although it would continue to exist. What kind
of ``modification'' is he talking about? Why does this not show that
consciousness is dependent on the world (for its content, if
not for its being)? Why does it not contradict what he says in §88
(pp. 215-16): that after the ``bracketing'' or ``exclusion'' of the
entire world, ``so to speak, everything remains as of old''?