scholarly journals Hayek's Spiritual Science

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Jerry O'Shea
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Gestalt Psychology ◽  
Georg Cantor ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Human Individual

This article argues that Hayek's thought had a consistent epistemological core that he developed with the aim of undermining prevailing positivism and replacing it with a metaphysical and spiritualistic philosophy of science. This becomes clear when an intellectual-historical method is used to elucidate Hayek's psychological and methodological works. We see that the approaches and arguments he found most convincing were those of nineteenth-century neo-Kantianisms, Gestalt psychology, vitalism, phenomenology, and theological mathematician Georg Cantor. Hayek thought his spiritual science superior because it explained “the place where the human individual stands in the order of things,” thereby clarifying science's epistemic standpoint, but also its meaning. The article will be of interest to scholars of neoliberalism and contemporary politics because its reading of Hayek suggests that the allegiance between, and apparent attractiveness of, Hayekian and religious conservative thought may have something to do with their common claims to marry order, freedom, and purpose.

Robert M. Young's Mind, Brain and Adaptation revisited

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Christopher Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Experimental Psychology ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Victorian Britain ◽  
Unique Character ◽  
Philosophy Department ◽  
History Of ◽  
Science Community ◽  
Scientific Ideas

Abstract Robert Maxwell Young's first book Mind, Brain and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century (1970), written from 1960 to 1965, still merits reading as a study of the naturalization of mind and its relation to social thought in Victorian Britain. I examine the book from two perspectives that give the volume its unique character: first, Young's interest in psychology, which he considered should be used to inform humane professional practices and be the basis of social reform; second, new approaches to the history of scientific ideas. I trace Young's intellectual interests to the Yale Philosophy Department, the Cambridge Department of Experimental Psychology and a new history and philosophy of science community. Although Young changed his political outlook and historiography radically after 1965, he always remained faithful to ideas about thought and practice described in Mind, Brain.

From New Anarchism to Post-anarchism

Kropotkin ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Kinna
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Political Theorist ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter examines contemporary anarchist critiques of Kropotkin, especially post-anarchist analysis. It argues that science has become a byword to describe Kropotkin's political theory, providing an exemplar for classical anarchism. This theory is described as teleological, based on a particular concept of human nature and linked to a form of revolutionary utopianism that promises the realisation of anarchy. Post-anarchists dissolve the distance between Kropotkin and Bakunin that advocates of his evolutionary theory invented in the 1960s in order to rescue anarchism from its reputation for violence. This repackaging of historical traditions underpins judgments about the irrelevance of anarchism to contemporary politics and political theory. In response, critics of post-anarchism have sought to defend nineteenth-century revolutionary traditions. The result of this argument is that Kropotkin emerges as a political theorist of class struggle. This defence raises significant questions about the coherence of Kropotkin's position on the war in 1914.

Charles Sanders Peirce: An Overview

1996 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Vincent G. Potter
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Charles Sanders Peirce ◽  
Alfred North Whitehead ◽  
Bertrand Russell ◽  
Gottlob Frege ◽  
Georg Cantor ◽  
Academic World ◽  
American Pragmatism ◽  
George Boole

This chapter provides an overview of the life of Charles Sander Peirce—philosopher, logician, scientist, and father of American pragmatism. This man, unappreciated in his lifetime, virtually ignored by the academic world of his day, is now recognized as perhaps America's most original philosopher and her greatest logician. Indeed, on the latter score, he is surely one of the logical giants of the nineteenth century, which produced such geniuses as Georg Cantor, Gottlob Frege, George Boole, Augustus De Morgan, Bertrand Russell, and Alfred North Whitehead. Today, more than eighty years after his death, another generation of scholars is beginning to pay him the attention he deserves. The chapter shows the brilliant and tragic career of Peirce. Though he never published a book on philosophy, his articles and drafts fill volumes.

Dedekind, Julius Wilhelm Richard (1831–1916)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard Stein
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Set Theory ◽  
Mathematical Knowledge ◽  
Mathematical Structure ◽  
Georg Cantor ◽  
General Notion ◽  
Algebraic Numbers ◽  
Integral Calculus ◽  
Foundational Work ◽  
First Time

Dedekind is known chiefly, among philosophers, for contributions to the foundations of the arithmetic of the real and the natural numbers. These made available for the first time a systematic and explicit way, starting from very general notions (which Dedekind himself regarded as belonging to logic), to ground the differential and integral calculus without appeal to geometric ‘intuition’. This work also forms a pioneering contribution to set theory (further advanced in Dedekind’s correspondence with Georg Cantor) and to the general notion of a ‘mathematical structure’. Dedekind’s foundational work had a close connection with his advancement of substantive mathematical knowledge, particularly in the theories of algebraic numbers and algebraic functions. His achievements in these fields make him one of the greatest mathematicians of the nineteenth century.

The Poetry and the Prose of the Future

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert S. Lehman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
The Third ◽  
Science Of History ◽  
The Future ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Poetic Response ◽  
Century Science

The Introduction examines three moments that have proven foundational for the fraught relationship between poetry and history. The first occurs in the fourth century B. C. in Aristotle’s Poetics, the earliest attempt to provide a systematic definition of the structure and effects of poetry and, consequently, the origin of all later crises of verse. The second appears in Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire, a text that offers a complicated poetic response to a moment of crisis in Marx’s own historical method. The third appears in the early writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, where, against the onset of the nineteenth-century science of history, the demand to see history become poetry is made explicit. Focusing on these three moments, the Introduction establishes the intellectual-historical coordinates of the poetico-historical problem that T. S. Eliot and Walter Benjamin inherit.

Pannenberg on the Resurrection and Historical Method

1980 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. E. Michalson
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Historical Explanation ◽  
Standard Methods ◽  
Past Event ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
The Past ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Casual Observer

Even the most casual observer of the contemporary theological scene knows that Wolfhart Pannenberg's theology relies heavily on the resurrection of Jesus as a genuinely historical event. The peculiarity of this is that a theologian who has accurately been called a ‘rationalist’ should so forthrightly embrace a claim that the entire thrust of post-Enlightenment theology has seemingly undermined. But Pannenberg himself contends that his reliance on the resurrection is not legitimated by the subterfuge of an existential ‘moment’ or ‘leap of faith’; instead, he argues for the acceptance of the resurrection on purely historical grounds. This argument implicitly rests on Pannenberg's conviction that ‘the truth is one’ and that the theologian's worst mistake is to cut the ties between theology and secular disciplines and modes of inquiry, a conviction that has recently received its most forceful statement in Pannenberg's Theology and the Philosophy of Science. This means that, insofar as belief in the resurrection of Jesus entails a claim about a past event, the standard methods by which we normally adjudicate claims about the past must be brought into play. Accordingly, the resurrection of Jesus is for Pannenberg not a ‘faith claim’, for ‘faith cannot ascertain anything certain about events of the past that would perhaps be inaccessible to the historian’. Instead, the resurrection of Jesus must be understood as the best historical explanation accounting for the New Testament witness and the rise of Christianity.

Racial Articulation and Labor in the 19th Century Brazil

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe Dias
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
Political Structures ◽  
The 19Th Century

This article seeks to explain how economic and local political structures shaped the ways in which public officials articulated ideas of race and labor in the nineteenth century Brazil. Employing a comparative historical method, this work advances the literature in two ways. First, it suggests that what we have come to view as a positive valuation of blackness has roots in the economic development prior to the centralized nation-building processes. Second, the findings of this study point to the effects of intra-national factors, such as economic structures and patterns of labor incorporation, in shaping how regional public officials articulated notions of “race,” labor, and progress.

scholarly journals Proletarian Politics Today: On the Perils and Possibilities of Historical Analogy

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Urban Populations ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Historical Analogy

AbstractWhen contemporary dispossessed urban classes are figured as a “proletariat,” a potent historical analogy is activated in which the well-documented experience of the burgeoning industrial working classes of nineteenth-century Europe provides an implicit template for interpreting events and processes far removed in time and space. Yet Karl Marx's own deployment of the figure of the proletariat, which often provides the inspiration and model for such analogic moves, was itself in its own time already a complex historical analogy, invoking the social hierarchies of ancient Rome. Rethinking this doubly analogical intellectual history provides an occasion both for considering the uses and abuses of historical analogy, and for using a reflection on the original (Roman) proletarians as a conceptual lever for prying apart some outdated assumptions about the contemporary politics of certain propertyless urban populations, in southern Africa and beyond.

scholarly journals “ELMU ANYAR” SINGKRETISME DALAM PENYEBARAN AGAMA KRISTEN DI JAWA BARAT PADA ABAD KE-19 DAN AWAL ABAD KE- 20

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 219
Author(s):  
Raden Muhammad Mulyadi
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Research Method ◽  
West Java ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
History Of ◽  
Secret Knowledge

Penyebaran Kristen di Jawa Barat menurut para tokoh penyebarnya pada masa Hindia Belanda dapat dikatakan terlambat apabila dibandingkan penyebarannya di wilayah lain di Indonesia. Tulisan ini menjelaskan sinkretisme dalam sejarah penyebaran agama Kristen di Jawa Barat. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam tulisan ini adalah metode sejarah yang terdiri dari heuristik, kritik, interpretasi dan historiografi. Hasil penelitian memperlihatkan bahwa masyarakat Sunda menjadi tujuan penyebaran agama Kristen sejak pertengahan abad ke-19. Penyebaran agama Kristen tersebut dilakukan ke wilayah-wilayah yang letaknya terpencil dengan membentuk komunitas-komunitas Kristen. Penyebaran agama tersebut salah satunya dilakukan dengan memperkenalkannya sebagai “elmu anyar” (ilmu baru). Penyebaran agama Kristen dilakukan secara perlahan, salah satunya adalah dengan melakukan penyebaran secara tersembunyi. Pada awalnya penyebaran Kristen dilakukan dengan cara melakukan dialog-dialog dalam upaya mencari “elmu” kehidupan yang diwarnai dengan ajaran-ajaran Kristen tanpa menyebutkan bahwa elmu tersebut merupakan ajaran agama Kristen.    The spread of Christianity in West Java during the Dutch East Indies period according to its missionaries can be considered quite late when compared to other regions in Indonesia. This paper examines syncretism in the history of the spread of Christianity in West Java. The research method used in this paper is a historical method consisting of heuristics, criticism, interpretation and historiography. The results of the study show that the Sundanese people became the target of Christian missionaries since the mid-nineteenth century. Missionaries’ activities were sent out to regions that were located in remote areas by forming many Christian communities. One of the methods used for evangelizing was by introducing it as "elmu anyar" (new knowledge). It was carried out slowly and secretly by conducting dialogues as an effort to search secret knowledge of life colored by Christian teachings without mentioning its origin.

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