The Future of Philosophy
The Future of Philosophy

Summary/Abstract: The most relevant conceptions of philosophy (philosophy as metaphysical interpretation of the world, philosophy as social critique and philosophy as epistemological framework and general synthesis of positive sciences) were unified by two different and opposite theses. The first thesis assumes that philosophy has reached in the times of total scientification of the human world its own end and that it is now something obsolete and meaningless. The opposite thesis assumes that philosophy is necessary today as a meaningful defense of the human world against the danger of irrationality. Only by overcoming the one-sidedness of these three conceptions can philosophy avoid its own obsolescence and the world can have a chance to avoid the threat of irrationality.

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