Critical Thinking and Philosophical Criticism – an Outline of the Problem
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Dariusz Kubok
Abstract
The following article constitutes an introduction to the problem of critical thinking and philosophical criticism. Above all, the main problem areas and ways of grasping these problems will be outlined. The possible relations between criticism and philosophy will be subject to analysis, enabling a better grasp of the specificity of philosophical criticism. Three basic models of these relations will be distinguished: (1) the identity of criticism and philosophy, (2) the subordinance of criticism to philosophy, and (3) the superordinance of criticism to philosophy. In addition, the main forms of criticism will be discussed, namely: separative criticism, antidogmatic criticism, and epistemological criticism. The goal of these reflections is to clarify the essence of both critical thinking and philosophical criticism.
Abstract
The following article constitutes an introduction to the problem of critical thinking and philosophical criticism. Above all, the main problem areas and ways of grasping these problems will be outlined. The possible relations between criticism and philosophy will be subject to analysis, enabling a better grasp of the specificity of philosophical criticism. Three basic models of these relations will be distinguished: (1) the identity of criticism and philosophy, (2) the subordinance of criticism to philosophy, and (3) the superordinance of criticism to philosophy. In addition, the main forms of criticism will be discussed, namely: separative criticism, antidogmatic criticism, and epistemological criticism. The goal of these reflections is to clarify the essence of both critical thinking and philosophical criticism.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter i
- Table of Contents v
- Critical Thinking and Philosophical Criticism – an Outline of the Problem 1
- Criticism as Paradoxatism. The Heraclitean Critique of the Notion of Opinion 11
- Criticism as the Basis for the Procedures of Hypothetical Dialectic in Plato’s Philosophy 25
- Aspects of Criticism in Plato’s Philosophy 47
- References to Plato’s Theaetetus in book Γ (IV) of Aristotle’s Metaphysics 65
- Conversation and Conservation. Two Kinds of Anti-Dogmatic Criticism in the Philosophy of Politics and their Antecedents in Ancient Greek Forms of Skepticism and Fallibilism 73
- The Critical Dimension of Locke’s Epistemology 93
- The Old and New Critique of Pure Reason based on Immanuel Kant and Jakob Friedrich Fries 111
- Criticism as It Was Understood by Hermann Cohen 127
- Hermann Cohen’s Critical Exposition of Kant’s Critique of Taste 139
- Criticism and Rationality in the Lvov-Warsaw School 161
- Rationality and Criticism in the Views of the Philosophers of the Lvov-Warsaw School and K.R. Popper 173
- More than Words: from Language to Society. Wittgenstein, Marx, and Critical Theory 191
- Reflexive Social Critique. On the Dialectical Criticism of Ideology According to Marx and Adorno 213
- Skepticism and Atheism. Three Types of Relationships 237
- Criticism in Political Philosophy. On the Advantages of Pragmatism over Ideologized Politics in Light of the Works of Witold Gombrowicz 251
- Consolatio or Critical Methods? Reflections on Philosophical Counseling 265
- Plato’s Dialectics as a Method of Critical Reflection on Art 281
- Register 299
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter i
- Table of Contents v
- Critical Thinking and Philosophical Criticism – an Outline of the Problem 1
- Criticism as Paradoxatism. The Heraclitean Critique of the Notion of Opinion 11
- Criticism as the Basis for the Procedures of Hypothetical Dialectic in Plato’s Philosophy 25
- Aspects of Criticism in Plato’s Philosophy 47
- References to Plato’s Theaetetus in book Γ (IV) of Aristotle’s Metaphysics 65
- Conversation and Conservation. Two Kinds of Anti-Dogmatic Criticism in the Philosophy of Politics and their Antecedents in Ancient Greek Forms of Skepticism and Fallibilism 73
- The Critical Dimension of Locke’s Epistemology 93
- The Old and New Critique of Pure Reason based on Immanuel Kant and Jakob Friedrich Fries 111
- Criticism as It Was Understood by Hermann Cohen 127
- Hermann Cohen’s Critical Exposition of Kant’s Critique of Taste 139
- Criticism and Rationality in the Lvov-Warsaw School 161
- Rationality and Criticism in the Views of the Philosophers of the Lvov-Warsaw School and K.R. Popper 173
- More than Words: from Language to Society. Wittgenstein, Marx, and Critical Theory 191
- Reflexive Social Critique. On the Dialectical Criticism of Ideology According to Marx and Adorno 213
- Skepticism and Atheism. Three Types of Relationships 237
- Criticism in Political Philosophy. On the Advantages of Pragmatism over Ideologized Politics in Light of the Works of Witold Gombrowicz 251
- Consolatio or Critical Methods? Reflections on Philosophical Counseling 265
- Plato’s Dialectics as a Method of Critical Reflection on Art 281
- Register 299
