Instructions
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.)