Rickert's relevance : the ontological nature and epistemological functions of values / by Anton C. Zijderveld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zijderveld, Anton C., 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Values.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Rickert, Heinrich, 1863-1936.

Rickert, Heinrich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the wake of the renewed interest in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, the neo-Kantian theories of Heinrich Rickert (1863-1936) are increasingly drawing attention. This monograph is an attempt to rescue Rickert from an undeserved oblivion by an analysis of his systematic philosophy of values. The author discusses Rickert's epistemology and ontology which lay the foundation for a methodology of the Natural Sciences and the Humanities. In Rickert's view these types of science are not in opposition to each other but operate on a continuum between two extremes: a 'generalizing' (natural-scientific) and an 'individualizing' (cultural-scientific) approach to reality. The social sciences in particular operate on this continuum in a flexible manner, sometimes close to the natural-scientific pole as in the case of experimental psychology or econometrics, sometimes close to the cultural-scientific approach, as in the case of cultural sociology or cultural history. Thus there is in Rickert's logic of science no room for any methodological quarrel.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Rickert revisited

Motives

Rickert's philosophical relevance argued e contrario

Systematic philosophy and heterology

The two neo-Kantian schools

Composition

Chapter One: A Bird's-Eye View of Rickert's Philosophy

Chapter Two: Critique of Vitalism

Irrationalism and intellectualism rejected

Systematic and surrealistic philosophy

Intuitionism and biologism

Darwin, facts and values

Four types of biologism

Biologism beyond Nietzsche

There are no biologistic values

Life and culture

Vitalism's credit side

Philosophical anthropology

Chapter Three: Knowledge and Reality

Epistemology and ontology

Between Idealism and Empirism

Basic terminology

The subjective (immanent) and the objective (transcendent) path

Knowledge and the subject-object dilemma

The standpoint of immanence

The subject as empty form

Transcendence in the immanent standpoint

Reality as an empty form

The epistemological act

The categorical imperative of judgments

Conclusion

Chapter Four: Facts, Values and Meaningful Acts

The total and bifocal reality

Facts and values

From relativism to relationism

Being, existing and valid meanings

Stages of being and validity

The meaning bestowing act

Neither psychologism nor metaphysics

The philosophy of culture in outline

The systematic philosophy of values

The formal matrix of value development

The metaphysical principle of full-fillment

Chapter Five: The Demarcation of Natural and Cultural Science

The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns

The continuum of sciences

Analytical matrix

Nature and culture distinguished ontologically

Observable and understandable reality

The generalizing and individualizing methods.

Cultural-Scientific generalization

Empathic understanding

Value-relationship, relating to values and abstaining from value-judgments

Cultural-Scientific objectivity

Causality in Cultural Science

Chapter Six: Rickert's Echo: Applications, Amplifications, Amendments

General philosophy

Legal philosophy

History

Sociology

Index of Names.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-39941-8

9786611399412

90-474-0979-5

OCLC:

568279643

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047409793 DOI