Zetetics

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Zetetics (from ancient Greek: ζἠτηsις - zétesis: search, investigation) is a philosophical term and means a theoretical attitude for which the search is in the foreground. Already the Socratic dialogue in Plato is considered a zetetisches process. In ancient times, the students of the skeptic Pyrrhon were referred to as Zetetikoi (seekers) . For Immanuel Kant , the method of teaching “world wisdom” was zetetic, that is, research, and not dogmatic. An example of this way of thinking is Popper's falsificationism , who viewed the truth only as a provisional occurrence on an open, never-ending path. With reference to Sextus Empiricus and his writing Adversus dogmaticos , Lutz Geldsetzer speaks of a zetetic hermeneutics . Hans Georg Gadamer considered the distinction between dogmatic and zetetic hermeneutics to be dogmatic and pleaded for its hermeneutic dissolution. In jurisprudence, zetetics is understood to be the critical text analysis not tied to dogmatics for the purpose of research.

See also: heuristics

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang H. Pleger : Socrates. The beginning of the philosophical dialogue , Reinbek 1998, p. 194.
  2. ^ Karl Vorländer: History of Philosophy, I. Philosophy of Antiquity, § 42 ( online )
  3. Immanuel Kant: News of the establishment of his lectures in the winter months 1765-1766, AA Volume II (Pre-Critical Writings II), 307
  4. ^ Lutz Geldsetzer: General Hermeneutics
  5. Hans Georg Gadamer: Truth and Method , Collected Works Volume 2, Tübingen, Mohr-Siebeck 1993, 279
  6. ^ Theodor Vieweg: System problems in legal dogmatics and legal research, in: Axel Diemer: System and Classification in Science and Documentation, Meisenheim 1969, 96-104

literature

  • Lutz Geldsetzer : About zetetic and dogmatic handling of the history of philosophy , in: HR Yousefi, Kl. Fischer, R. Lüthe and P. Gerdsen (eds.): Paths to science. An intercultural perspective. Basics, differences, interdisciplinary dimensions, Nordhausen 2008, pp. 309–335.
  • Rudolf Malter : Philosophy lessons according to the Zetetic method , in: Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Philosophie 3 (1981), 63–78.

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