Note: this assignment, due Nov. 13, is for students in Group II (Judd, Kieffe) 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 is
Husserl's proposed
phenomenological ἐποχή therefore
related to (similar to and different from) Descartes's universal
attempted doubt (in procedure, scope, and/or aim)?