Talk:Methodic doubt

Unification Aspects:

• Augustine presented a similar discourse with Descartes’ methodic doubt. Augustine was aware of the argument that the existence of the “I” is certain as far as “I” doubt or “I” am deceived. Augustine, however, did not use doubt as a method to find the point of departure for his own philosophical discourse. Descartes, on the other hand, used doubt as a thought experiment to find something absolutely certain. When Husserl formulated phenomenology, he also used a similar thought experiment to find something that is “apodictically certain.” By this, Husserl meant that “its denial is inconceivable,” and he was in search of the point of departure from which he can develop his thought. Later, Husserl gave up his earlier “Cartesian path” and developed a new phenomenology of the life world. Unificationism does not employ methodic doubt in any part of its thought.

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