Postmodern Liberalism as a New Humanism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3895449 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrzej Szahaj (0000-0003-2039-7896, Nicolaus Copernicus University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 63-70 |
| Publication date | 2005-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Diogenes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0392-1921 • E-ISSN: 1467-7695 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0392192105052622 |
| OpenAlex | W2137287907 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
The belief in Reason has had a great career in Europe. The most important factor was at the beginning, in the great Greek philosophers' abhorrence of everything that was not controllable and that threatened a descent into inner and outer chaos. It could be bodily passions or subjection to the irrational will of the crowd. The instability and fragility of the world had to be cured by something that could resist the logic of permanent change because it always remained the same. This attitude, typical of ancient philosophy, resulted in love of Reason and Truth, in hope for absolute certainty and in belief in the possibility of uncovering the principle behind all things. To be sure, Greek dialectics was an art of finding truth in the process of debating, but nevertheless the main hero of European narrative became the lonely philosopher capable of seeing all things as they were in themselves, fundamentals, principles and ideas. Truth was not a thing of this world, that was the axiom of almost all Greek philosophy, and without it the good life and the good political community (polis) were not possible. Plato - the founding father of this way of thinking - became 'the arbiter of elegance' for the whole of European culture (the sophists - the only philosophers who saw things differently - were defeated by him all too easily). Ever since Plato's time we have thought like Plato and his later European heirs such as Descartes, Kant or Husserl
Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Humanism · Individualism · Liberalism · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Sociology · Solidarity · Global History, Politics, and Ideology · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |