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RAŢIONALITATEA ŞTIINŢIFICĂ ŞI ALTE TIPURI DE RAŢIONALITATE

  • TITLU în română: RAŢIONALITATEA ŞTIINŢIFICĂ ŞI ALTE TIPURI DE RAŢIONALITATE
  • Subiect: The text presented here illustrates the work and deep worldview that Academician Alexandru Boboc promoted his entire life: rationalism; and this means all the way. Why rationalism and what does it mean? It is, first, the substantiation of humans’ positions about what is constant and generally efficient in their relationships with and in the world. The basis of what is constant and generally efficient is not the idea/the world of ideas as such, but the “true judgement with an account”, as Plato said long before (Theaetetus, 201c): the logically correct judgement based on semantically correct information. The reasoned judgement is always about concrete things, but since these things are transient, how can the human rationality – that takes its power from its ability to unite in abstract schemes what it has discriminated before – be lasting? It can, just because it does not end with its abstract designs, but ascends to the comprehension of the many facets of the concrete. Thus, the correct information as such is never the simple onesided content eventually implied in the premises: on the contrary, it supposes the reciprocal confrontation of the different aspects of the concrete and their analysis. Alexandru Boboc’s passion, in the frame of his larger specialisation in history of philosophy, is the modern thinking. From the always contradictory phenomena arisen in the modern intellectual vortex, he always insisted on what the modern philosophy has demonstrated in such a way that, on the basis of judgements, the return to irrational stances to no longer be possible. In this respect, he has as poles Kant and Hegel. Human knowledge starts from the human experience and no one can avoid this empirical origin, but human knowledge is more than a collection of data about transient things: it is, certainly, even more than the first abstract schemes of the intellect; it is the living picture of the never ended complex of connections and viewpoints. The order put by human thinking in the world as it is conceived is not opposed to its openness: it suggests pluralism but, at the same time, this is not drowned in relativism. The human rationality – judging and measuring the causes, the necessary and the contingency, and the consequences – is the only one that prevents the incidents from turning maleficent for human life. The human rationality is thus the only one that foresees its results from the nunc – since the judgements are already models of/for the future, the humans do not judge only after the outcomes turned out – and also that anticipates, starting from the models of the future in order to avoid present bad individual, isolated and short-termed reckonings. The text points just the epistemological logic of the modern rationalism. This logic was called “criticism” by Kant, while Hegel has used and developed both the meanings of criticism and of dialectic, beyond the ancient origins of this last word and method. From an epistemological point of view, the greatness of Kant and Hegel stands in the reciprocal rationale of rationalism and criticism: rationalism means the decomposition of ideas and their multiple judgements, not the alignment to the argument from authority, and thus it puts the premises of every idea under question; criticism is just the rejection of the appeal to authority and thus it arrives to question the premises themselves, and this entire process becomes an inherent movement of the human spirit in front of the world. This methodological contribution of the modern rationalism is cardinal.
  • Limba de redactare: română
  • Secţiunea: SUB SEMNUL RAŢIONALISMULUI [UNDER THE SIGN OF RATIONALISM]
  • Vezi publicația: Noema
  • Editura: Academiei Române
  • Loc publicare: Bucureşti
  • Anul publicaţiei: 2019
  • Referinţă bibliografică pentru nr. revistă: XVIII; anul 2019
  • Paginaţia: 13-20
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