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1 online resource (xiii, 364 pages) |
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COVER13; -- CONTENTS13; -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- Rickert revisited -- Motives -- Rickert8217;s philosophical relevance argued e contrario -- Systematic philosophy and heterology -- The two neo-Kantian schools -- Composition -- CHAPTER ONE A BIRD8217;S-EYE VIEW OF RICKERT8217;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 -- Rickert8217;s critique of biologism -- There are no biologistic values -- Life and culture -- Vitalism8217;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 -- Conclusion -- 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 -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER SIX RICKERT8217;S ECHO: APPLICATIONS, AMPLIFICATIONS, AMENDMENTS -- Introduction -- General philosophy -- Legal philosophy -- History -- Sociology -- CONCLUSION -- INDEX OF NAMES |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Rickert, Heinrich, 1863-1936.
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| SUBJECT |
Rickert, Heinrich, 1863-1936 fast |
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Values.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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epistemology.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Values
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Computer network resources
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9047409795 |
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9789047409793 |
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1281399418 |
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9781281399410 |
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