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Gnoseology and the Critical Problem
- 1. GNOSEOLOGY and the RITICAL PROBLEM
- 2. EXTREME CRITICAL POSITION Submit everything to a relentless examination based exclusively on judgment
- 3. EXTREME CRITICAL POSITION Submit everything to a relentless examination based exclusively on judgment INCONSISTENT and NOT FEASIBLE ALTHOUGH ATTRACTIVE AT FIRST GLANCE Impossible to criticize everything Must always be based on some assumptions.
- 4. All knowledge necessarily has certain basic assumptions. It is necessary to recognize and examine these basic assumptions. See Truth and Method, trans. Weinheimer and Marshall (New York, 2004), pp. 272-276.
- 5. The ability to choose, to elect, and therefore to judge, to judge the value of a thing in function of a rule or an ideal.
- 7. ORIGINS AND HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE CRITICAL PROBLEM William of Ockham Cartesian Criticism Kant’s Critical Philosophy Radicalization of Criticism Restoration of the Metaphysics of Being
- 8. WILLIAM OF OCKHAM Nihilcognoscitur nisi cognoscatur intuitive Only valid knowledge is direct and immediate knowledge of individual things. Via modernapaving the way for empiricism and rationalism.
- 9. CARTESIAN CRITICISM Critical examination of human knowledge Radical doubt Certainty of existence of the thinking subject Certainty of existence of others in geometrical mode
- 10. KANT’S CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY Thinking about thought, not things Reflection about the subjective conditions of the knowledge of objects (things in themselves being declared unknowable).
- 11. RADICALIZATION OF CRITICISM Neo-positivism Marxism Nietzsche Historicism Levi-Strauss Foucault Althusser Vitalism and Existentialism
- 12. RESTORATION OF THE METAPHYSICS OF BEING
- 13. THE ROLE OF GNOSEOLOGY WITHIN PHILOSOPHY Primacy and Rejection of Gnoseology The Function of Gnoseology The Defense of Truth in Classical Gnoseology The Notion and Nature of Gnoseology
- 14. PRIMACY AND REJECTION OF GNOSEOLOGY
- 15. PRIMACY AND REJECTION OF GNOSEOLOGY Contemporary Idealisms Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, Prologue to the 1st edition , A. XI-XII
- 16. PRIMACY AND REJECTION OF GNOSEOLOGY Heidegger’s critique of Philosophy of Consciousness Substitution of certitude for truth Interdependence of reality and its depiction
- 17. PRIMACY AND REJECTION OF GNOSEOLOGY .Critique on Psychologism
- 18. THE FUNCTION OF GNOSEOLOGY To examine better our knowledge and correct errors DISCERNMENT
- 19. THE PLACE OF GNOSEOLOGY Primacy of the ontological over the gnoseological We know realities; upon this basis we know that we know.
- 20. THE DEFENSE OF TRUTH IN CLASSICAL GNOSEOLOGY
- 21. THE NOTION AND NATURE OF GNOSEOLOGY Metaphysical Theory of Knowledge truth
Editor's Notes
- An attempt to achieve absolute knowledge (free from all prejudices and assumptions).Through universal doubt, eliminate all assumptions. From this point, reason works its way to reach absolute knowledge.
- An attempt to achieve absolute knowledge (free from all prejudices and assumptions).Through universal doubt, eliminate all assumptions. From this point, reason works its way to reach absolute knowledge.
- The critique on pyschologism opens the possibility for Gnoseology to better examine our knowledge and to correct errors.