Criticism as Paradoxatism. The Heraclitean Critique of the Notion of Opinion
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Sebastian Śpiewak
Abstract
This paper is focused on the critical approach of Heraclitus of Ephesus. His theory of logos can be viewed in the light of broadly-understood criticism, which was one of the distinctive features of the nascent philosophy at that time. It has been deemed important to analyze the Heraclitean critical project mainly as a form of critique of existing opinions (especially scientific and philosophical opinions), to which the name of “paradoxatism” shall be suggested as the most appropriate. Heraclitus’ criticism as “paradoxatism” turns out to be the main consequence of his view on the logos as the relevant object of cognition and knowledge in spite of its paradoxical nature in the case of the ordinary human cognitive attitude.
Abstract
This paper is focused on the critical approach of Heraclitus of Ephesus. His theory of logos can be viewed in the light of broadly-understood criticism, which was one of the distinctive features of the nascent philosophy at that time. It has been deemed important to analyze the Heraclitean critical project mainly as a form of critique of existing opinions (especially scientific and philosophical opinions), to which the name of “paradoxatism” shall be suggested as the most appropriate. Heraclitus’ criticism as “paradoxatism” turns out to be the main consequence of his view on the logos as the relevant object of cognition and knowledge in spite of its paradoxical nature in the case of the ordinary human cognitive attitude.
Chapters in this book
- 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
Chapters in this book
- 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
