Figura niezaangażowanego badacza. Prawda i prawdopodobieństwo w badaniu myśli religijnej
Figure of the disengaged researcher. Truth and probability in the study of religious thought

Author(s): Michał Rogalski
Subject(s): Cultural history, Cognitive Psychology, History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: truth; objectivity; intellectual dispute; controversy intellectual; history of philosophy; history of ideas; intellectual history; rhetoric; hermeneutics; worldview; Aristotle; Gadamer; Dilthey
Summary/Abstract: The author deals with the attitude of the historian of ideas to the subject of his research, especially if they are in the form of an intellectual dispute or controversy. Presented the text contains a critical analysis of the possibility of objective occupation, non-valued attitude towards the subject of one's own research. Based on Aristotle's analyzes of rhetoric, the author shows that the presentation of the test results in writing involves an attachment to their positions and giving them a place and meaning in the context of the argument, which is equivalent to the evaluation operation. The empirical context of considerations is an autoanalytical case study: own research on modernism Catholic in Poland. On their basis, the author indicates another source of the impossibility objectivism hidden in the hermeneutic method of research. Gadamer's postulate of writing history again and again with consideration changing context leads to a strong emphasis in the study the world view of the researcher himself.

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