Philosophy scandal

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The scandal of philosophy is the fact that in philosophy - despite its long tradition - no thesis or knowledge is recognized as evident by all philosophers .

Karl Jaspers explains : "What is recognized by everyone for compelling reasons has thus become scientific knowledge , is no longer philosophy, but relates to a special area of ​​knowledge".

Immanuel Kant called a scandal of philosophy - with regard to George Berkeley - that one needed proof for the reality of things. For Kant “it always remains a scandal of philosophy and general human reason to have to accept the existence of things outside of us [...] merely on the basis of faith, and, if it occurs to someone to doubt it, to be unable to provide sufficient evidence to counter it. “(Immanuel Kant: AA III, 23).

The thought Martin Heidegger opposed directly: "The scandal of philosophy 'does not is that this evidence is still pending, but the fact that such proofs are expected again and again and tried. It is not the proofs that are inadequate, but rather the type of being of the proving and evidencing being is underdetermined. ”(§ 43 of Being and Time , 11th edition, p. 217). He regarded Kant's question as a pseudo problem.

Dieter Mersch, on the other hand, sees Hans Jonas's ethics of the natural as an approach that “finally allows to dispel the scandal that was inherent in Heidegger's philosophy from the beginning: the lack of any category of the moral”.

The historian of philosophy Franz Kröner also sees the “real scandal of philosophy [...] in the irreducible multiplicity and the stark conflict between philosophical views”. For Heinrich Heine, interpreted ironically, it is an indication of a philosophy scandal when he regards philosophy as the “ abuse of terminology ” “ which is specially invented for this purpose ”.

In a more recent article, Andreas Urs Sommer uses the term to draw attention to a discrepancy between the theoretical work of philosophers and practical action.

literature

  • Carl Friedrich Gethmann : Dasein: Recognizing and acting Heidegger in the phenomenological context . de Gruyter, Berlin 1993, ISBN 978-3-11013848-1 (esp. The problem of reality: A scandal of philosophy ?, pp. 207–244).
  • Karl Heinz Haag The progress in philosophy. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-518-57632-1 .
  • Reinhard Lauth Concept, justification and justification of philosophy. Blow Munich [u. a.] 1967 (also: ibid. 2002, ISBN 3-935990-09-X ).
  • Rolf Zimmermann: The "scandal of philosophy" and the semantics. Critical and systematic investigation into analytical ontology and empirical theory. Alber, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 1981, ISBN 3-495-47445-5 ( Alber brochure philosophy ), (At the same time: Heidelberg, Univ., Philos.-Histor. Fac., Diss., 1972: Existential concept and language-analytical ontology. ).

Remarks

  1. ↑ Karl Jaspers : Introduction to Philosophy. Twelve radio lectures Zurich 1950, ISBN 3-492-04667-3 .
  2. ↑ Immanuel Kant, Collected Writings. Ed .: Vol. 1-22 Prussian Academy of Sciences, Vol. 23 German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, from Vol. 24 Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Berlin 1900ff., AA III, 23  / KrV B XXXIX, note.
  3. ↑ Dieter Mersch : Introduction, in: Ingeborg Breuer, Peter Leusch and Dieter Mersch: Worlds in the head. Profiles of contemporary philosophy. Volume 1: Germany. Rotbuch, Hamburg 1996, 2 ( online ( memento of the original from August 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.momo-berlin.de
  4. ↑ Franz Kröner : The Anarchy of Philosophical Systems, Meiner 1929, reprint 1970 p. 1
  5. ↑ Andreas Urs Sommer : Scandalous Philosophizing, in: Gegenworte. Booklets for the dispute about knowledge, ed. from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science, issue 29, spring 2013, pp. 47–49, here p. 47