Podział nauk a miejsce i status ekonomii
The division of sciences and the position and status of economics

Summary/Abstract: The taken up considerations fit into the range of metaeconomics, which is understood by me as a theoretically-methodological reflection (auto reflection) about economics, its objective-methodological specificity, status and emplacement among other disciplines. The context for those considerations is the mentioned twentieth-century discussion on the division of sciences and status of humanistic and social disciplines conducted in the anti-positivistic stream of the philosophy of science. Beginning with Dilthey and Rickert, as well as Znaniecki and Fleck takes place a process of emerging the standpoint of culturalism, according to which it is assumed that the cognition is only possible when using the humanistic factor, which means that all reality is cognitively available only as a cultural reality – seen by the prism of constitutionalising cognitive process of cultural categories. The accepting recognition of this position leads consequently to the rejection of the positivistically-scientic chapter of nature and culture, natural science and humanities. In the light of convictions the position of culturallyconstructionistically accepted in the postmodern philosophy it is necessary to revise the previous outlook regarding fi ndings on basic disciplines and traditional hierarchy of sciences. Those considerations lead to determining an alternative in relationship with the orthodox character, place and status of economics seen as a field of culture science studies describing and explaining the economic reality as an area of practice culturally regulated.

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