Doxosoph
A doxosophist , sometimes also a doxosophist , a combination of ancient Greek δόξα dóxa , German 'opinion, theory, inspiration' and σοφία sophía , German 'wisdom' , is someone who represents a wisdom of opinion or an imagination of knowledge (Doxosophilis), an opinion imitator or opinion teacher .
Definition of terms
According to Plato, the doxosophist represents the exact opposite of the philosopher , as Paul Friedländer says in Chapter VII. Irony of the book Trasymachos "Trasymachos intervenes, as a real doxosopher the exact adversary of the philosopher." The doxosophist is considered someone who is not aware of the practical effects of his theory.
Pierre Bourdieu also contributed to the popularity of this term with his book Gegenfeuer . By Doxosophists, Bourdieu means people in the media and politics who represent neoliberal knowledge without having specialist knowledge. In talk shows, for example, they talk with neoliberal terms ( catchphrases ) and not about them . Doxosophists only sell ready-made answers that are not questioned and are therefore mere "opinion technicians". He writes about it:
“For me, 'doxosophists' are the sham scholars of opinions, or appearances, the pollsters and opinion leaders, those people who want us to believe that the people are speaking, that they are incessantly talking about all important things.
'To speak is to say', said Plato. But nothing is more unevenly distributed than this ability, and of course such a statement disturbs the good democratic conscience: all people are equal, that is the dogma. But to say that all people are equal before opinion is a mistake, a political mistake ... Personal opinion is a luxury.
In the social world there are people who are 'spoken to', for whom one speaks because they do not speak themselves, for whom one asks questions because they cannot ask them themselves.
In the great game of democratic mystification, one goes so far as to give them the opportunity to answer questions that they themselves could not have raised. You cause them to give wrong answers that make you forget that they have no questions. "
“A struggle is being waged within the intellectual world today, the aim of which is to create and enforce the 'new intellectual'; This means a redefinition of the intellectual and his political role, a redefinition of philosophy and the philosopher, who from then on his field of activity in indefinite debates about a political philosophy without a professional character, about a social science reduced to political science of the electoral level and in uncritical comments on unscientific commercial ones Finds opinion polls. Plato describes these people with the great expression doxosoph: this "opinion technologist who considers himself scientific" (I am reproducing the three meanings of the word here) presents political problems in the same terms used by business people, politicians and journalists specializing in politics (from exactly those who can commission surveys).
In contrast to the doxosophist, the sociologist and the philosopher question the obvious, especially when it is presented in the form of questions and not least of their own. The shocked the Doxosophen who sees it as a political prejudice, if that is rejected by and by political subordination in the form of an unconscious assumption of platitudes in the aristocratic sense notions or theses with is which argued over but does not discuss the man ".
literature
- Wilhelm Traugott Krug: Doxosophy . In: General concise dictionary of the philosophical sciences: together with their literature and history . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A-E . FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1832, p. 642 ( books.google.de ).
- Pierre Bourdieu: Gegenfeuer (= Edition discours . Volume 37 ). Universitäts-Verlag, Konstanz 2004, ISBN 3-89669-511-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hubert Röck: The unadulterated Socrates, the atheist and "Sophist", and the essence of all philosophy and religion . Wagner, Innsbruck 1903, p. 48 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- ↑ a b Wilhelm Traugott Krug: General concise dictionary of the philosophical sciences: together with their literature and history . FA Brockhaus, 1832, p. 642 ( books.google.de ).
- ^ Paul Friedländer: Plato . tape 1 , 1960, p. 151 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Pierre Bourdieu: From the use of science: for a clinical sociology of the scientific field . Universitäts-Verlag, Konstanz 1998, ISBN 3-87940-620-0 , p. 72-73 .