By Otegbulu, Gabriel C.
The task of distillation of truth from different propositions or theories, in other to arrive at a rigorous science that is objectively grounded is indeed problematic. Objective knowledge is the science of true philosophy. It is the quality of being true
even outside of a subject’s individual prejudice, biases, interpretation, feeling and imagination. However, philosophers in an attempt to demonstrate how this objective knowledge can be attained ended up in a science of facts or naturalism. But the question is, does it lead to objective knowledge? Husserl believes that no science of facts can lead to the science of foundation. For him, it is only the phenomenological method which is concerned with analyzing consciousness, where alone objectivity is absolute, can guarantee an objective knowledge. Thus for him objective knowledge is the knowledge of the essence of things. It is the knowledge that has absolute being as its object. Husserl therefore believes that the phenomenological method/technique by which we can arrive at the essence of things or the knowledge of the absolute is the
epoche. This work is an inquiry into how Husserl’s phenomenological epoche can lead us to objective knowledge. It also explored to what extent Husserl phenomenological method can provide foundation for other normative sciences. A combination of historical, expository, analytic and evaluative methods were adopted.