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
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Dariusz Kubok
Abstract
The aim of my paper is to indicate the Greek antecedents of select conceptions in the field of modern political philosophy and to reveal the durability of certain interpretations of Greek skepticism and fallibilism in fields other than traditionally-understood ancient epistemology. My reflections concentrate on the views of M. Oakeshott and K.R. Popper and are based above all on their correspondence from 1948. I attempt to show the similarities and differences in these views from the perspective of anti-dogmatic criticism, whose roots are located in Greek thought. In this sense, the philosophy of politics will be treated as a sort of adaptational test of the life-span of ancient ideas, in this case - to particular versions of skepticism and fallibilism. In this context, special attention should be paid to problems connected with man’s cognitive limitations; the way rationalism is understood; the critique of Utopianism; and the role of tradition and humility in human life.
Abstract
The aim of my paper is to indicate the Greek antecedents of select conceptions in the field of modern political philosophy and to reveal the durability of certain interpretations of Greek skepticism and fallibilism in fields other than traditionally-understood ancient epistemology. My reflections concentrate on the views of M. Oakeshott and K.R. Popper and are based above all on their correspondence from 1948. I attempt to show the similarities and differences in these views from the perspective of anti-dogmatic criticism, whose roots are located in Greek thought. In this sense, the philosophy of politics will be treated as a sort of adaptational test of the life-span of ancient ideas, in this case - to particular versions of skepticism and fallibilism. In this context, special attention should be paid to problems connected with man’s cognitive limitations; the way rationalism is understood; the critique of Utopianism; and the role of tradition and humility in human life.
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
