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Heidegger, Pride and National Socialism
Issue:
Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2013
Pages:
1-5
Received:
19 March 2013
Published:
10 June 2013
Abstract: This article looks at the controversy surrounding Heidegger's National Socialism and asks the following question: was Heidegger a Nazi and if so, why did he not disavow it more vigorously after the war? This leads to an argument that Heidegger's pride led him to amend his work to dilute the consistencies of his work with National Socialism after the fact, in addition to allowing his work to remain obscure in meaning. He did the same with the rejection of transcendence, and for the same reasons: to do so would be to point out that his work, however radical, achieved less that he claimed for it. Heidegger’s story remains a cautionary tale for any intellectual who comes after him.
Abstract: This article looks at the controversy surrounding Heidegger's National Socialism and asks the following question: was Heidegger a Nazi and if so, why did he not disavow it more vigorously after the war? This leads to an argument that Heidegger's pride led him to amend his work to dilute the consistencies of his work with National Socialism after t...
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Between Concept and Metaphor: Reviewing Nietzsche’s Doctrine of Truth
Issue:
Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2013
Pages:
6-20
Received:
2 March 2013
Published:
20 June 2013
Abstract: For centuries, humankind accepts truth to be something static and global but Nietzsche has famously argued that truth is a metaphor and for that matter changeable and perennially evolving. As I hope to show here, this radical view has resulted out of Nietzsche’s meta-commentary on language and logic. The main purpose of this article is to examine the key points of Nietzsche’s arguments and the soundness of their conclusions, and thereby bring out their underlying critical intent.
Abstract: For centuries, humankind accepts truth to be something static and global but Nietzsche has famously argued that truth is a metaphor and for that matter changeable and perennially evolving. As I hope to show here, this radical view has resulted out of Nietzsche’s meta-commentary on language and logic. The main purpose of this article is to examine t...
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A New Perceptual Activity Approach to Scientific Historiography
Issue:
Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2013
Pages:
21-28
Received:
18 March 2013
Published:
30 July 2013
Abstract: Beginning from the second half of the ХХ century, the sociological approaches have been predominant in studying the issues concerning historiography of science; at the same time, the positions of rational philosophy have considerably weakened. The purpose of this article is to develop an alternative approach to the science historiography based on the assumption of perceptual activity. The active approach presupposes a close connection between the rational and the empirical cognitions that allows developing a new method of description of the scientific history. In the foundation of the approach being developed, there is an assumption about a certain perceptual expectation that plays an important role both in perception and rational interpretation of what has been observed. This new view on the relations between scientific theory and experiment allows revealing a larger variety of the occasions of such relations which turn out to be missed under other approaches to the history of science.
Abstract: Beginning from the second half of the ХХ century, the sociological approaches have been predominant in studying the issues concerning historiography of science; at the same time, the positions of rational philosophy have considerably weakened. The purpose of this article is to develop an alternative approach to the science historiography based on t...
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