ARISTOTLE'S 'PHRONESIS' AND SOCIAL INQUIRY

• Authors: Szawiel Tadeusz
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The first part of the article consists in analysis of the meaning of Aristotelian concept of practical knowledge (phrónesis). The analysis takes into account the interpretations of 'phrónesis' by Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer. Thus interpreted 'phrónesis' serves as a model of understanding of the objects of the social sciences. The specific application of the model is explicated on the example of the meaning of the religious act. The second part concerns the thesis of radical incomprehensibility of the Holocaust and the role which conditions addressed by the concept of 'facticity' might play in answering the question about the sense of such a phenomenon like the Holocaust in XX century. It is claimed that philosophical reflection is not something external to social inquiry but concerns the conditions which play decisive role in constitution of the object of the social sciences. The final part reflects on the logical nature of the relation between 'the human' and 'the social'.

Keywords

EN

'THE HUMAN'; 'THE SOCIAL'; ARISTOTLE; HOLOCAUST; PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Warsaw University, Institute of Philosophy, Institute of Polish Literature and Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
• Journal: Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 2-3(20)
• Pages: 498-508
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Szawiel Tadeusz

• Tadeusz Szawiel, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Socjologii, ul. Karowa 18, 00-324 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA067923