Solicitation (dialectic)
When obtaining is in the philosophical dialectic , the process referred to since the 20th century occasionally to reconstruct through the development of a particular theory have already created results or the material or spiritual conditions of this theory itself.
For example, Hans-Georg Gadamer uses the metaphor of “catching up” with reference to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , who, for the purpose of restoring the philosophical evidence of ancient philosophy, develops a dialectical method of “escalation to contradiction” on the one hand, and one in the “logical” on the other Instinct of language "conjures up hidden" speculative content ":
“By trying to overcome the alienated school language of philosophy - without any purism - and by interspersing its foreign words and artistic expressions with the terms of ordinary thinking, Hegel succeeded in catching up the speculative spirit of his mother tongue in the speculative movement of philosophizing, such as the natural dowry of the beginning philosophizing of the Greeks. "
The metaphor can already be found in Theodor W. Adorno , who notes on the philosophical legacy of Walter Benjamin in the book Minima Moralia , which was completed in 1949 :
“Benjamin's writings are the attempt to make philosophically fruitful that which has not already been determined by the great intentions in an ever new approach. His legacy consists in the task of not leaving such an attempt solely to the alienating puzzles of the thought, but to catch up with the unintentional through the term: the compulsion to think dialectically and undialectically at the same time. "
Individual evidence
- ^ HG Gadamer: Newer Philosophy Volume 1, in: Gesammelte Werke Volume 3, Mohr Siebeck, 1987, ISBN 3-162452-20-1 , page 26
- ^ TW Adorno: Minima Moralia , in: Gesammelte Schriften Volume 4, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a. M. 1980, ISBN 3-518074-96-2 , page 171