Suchergebnisse

One / The Critique of Relativism in the Prolegomena to the Logical Investigations -- 1. The Prolegomena Critique -- 2. Relativism Reconsidered -- Two / The Critique of Historicism and Weltanschauung Philosophy in "Philosophy as Rigorous Science" -- 1. The Critique of Historicism -- 2. The Defense of Philosophy as a Science -- Three / The Phenomenological Elucidation of Truth: Between Skepticism and Relativism -- 1. Cartesian Objectivism and the Epistemic Critique -- 2. Truth and Evidenz in the Prolegomena -- 3. Truth and Evidenz in the Sixth Investigation -- 4. Truth and Evidenz in Ideas I -- 5. Summary and Provisional Conclusions -- Four / Phenomenology and the Absolute -- 1. Transcendental Phenomenology and the Path to Absolute Evidenz -- 2. Adequacy and Apodicticity -- 3. Intersubjectivity: A First Approach -- Five / Relativism and the Lifeworld -- 1. Historical Introduction: The 'Turn' to the Lifeworld -- 2. The Plurality and Relativity of the Lifeworld -- 3. The Lifeworld and Truth -- 4. The Priority of the Lifeworld -- 5. The Phenomenological Overcoming of Relativism -- Conclusion.

Addressing Hans Georg Gadamer's very influential but highly ambiguous critique of traditional ideals of objectivity in the hermeneutical/historical disciplines, a detailed reconstruction of the Gadamerian position is presented, with special emphasis on his notions of "historicity" & "objectivity". Also examined is whether Gadamer's position is, or entails, a form of relativism, & whether it is prescriptive or descriptive. It is emphasized that phenomenology plays a crucial role in Gadamer's attacks on objectivity. In a critique of his attempt to use phenomenology to undermine traditional ideals of objectivity in the human sciences, it is argued that a consistently phenomenological approach does not (as Gadamer claims) undermine the ideal of intersubjectivity, but only that of absolute certainty. Thus, the constructive implications of phenomenology are elucidated, vindicating it against the negative strain in the Heideggerian/Gadamerian appropriation. AA