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Conceptions of epoché
Though in Western philosophy epoché is understood primarily as a method, its implementation is based on a conversion of the human relation to the world. Thus, not only the tension between practical life and theoretical attitude, but also the relationship between individual transformation through epoché and the social mode of science as a community of researchers in the context of a transformation of the social life-world is open to discussion. This problem profile is to be analyzed in recourse to authors such as Husserl, Fink, Scheler, Patocka, Hans Lipps, and others, and to be con-trasted with ancient skepticism and positions of Buddhism.