Noetics
Noetics is a term used in modern philosophy. It is used differently in philosophical terminology. According to the most common usage, it describes the phenomenology (doctrine of appearances) of reason .
The word is derived from the ancient Greek adjective νοητική noētikḗ ("relating to thinking, understanding"). In Latin one speaks of the noetica (scientia) , the noetic science. The associated noun Nous describes the ability to grasp something mentally and the authority in humans that is responsible for cognition and thinking.
In the early 17th century, noetics was the first of the three parts of logic , the doctrine of the term (concept); the other parts are the doctrine of the sentence or judgment and that of the conclusion . This definition of noetics was disseminated in manuals of logic. In 1614, the philosopher Johann Heinrich Alsted determined the term, theme and axiom as the noetic instruments.
New definitions were introduced in the 19th century. The logician William Hamilton called the part of logic that deals with the four fundamental laws of thought as noetics. These are the principle of contradiction , the principle of identity , the principle of the excluded third party and the principle of sufficient reason . Ernst Ferdinand Friedrich published his work Contributions to the Promotion of Logic, Noetics and Science in 1864 . He understood by noetics the theory of thought activity in contrast to the doctrine of volition, the "theletics". The best-known definition of noetics comes from Edmund Husserl . He defined it as the phenomenology of reason, which “ subjects the rational consciousness to an intuitive investigation”.
literature
- Historical dictionary of philosophy . Volume 6, Schwabe, Basel 1984, column 873 f. (Lemma Noetics )
- Lawrence Krader : Noetics. The Science of Thinking and Knowing. Peter Lang, New York 2010, ISBN 978-1-4331-0762-7