Discours des Méthodes

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Josef Seifert
Discours des Méthodes
The Methods of Philosophy and Realist Phenomenology

The term “method” of realist phenomenology and philosophy can refer to three kinds of things which are being explored extensively in this work: (1) Kinds of philosophical knowledge used to return to things themselves: intellectual “vision” of necessary intelligible essences, insights into necessary states of affairs, knowledge of less than necessary essences, knowledge of existence as such, of the ego cogitans and of a concretely existing world, other persons, and the absolute being, deductive forms of reasoning, and others. (2) Ways to achieve such knowledge: such as various types of distinctions, asking proper questions, correct use of analogies, and replies to objections. (3) Finally, these methods include several “tricks” and devices such as methodic doubt and epoché; these are subordinated to the other methods, and neither necessary nor universal tools of all philosophical knowledge.

About the Author

Josef Seifert, born 1945. Ph.D., habilitation, Dr. h.c., Full Prof., Rector of Intern. Acad. f. phil. in the Principality Liechtenstein (since 1986) and at the PUC (Chile since 2004), married, 6 children. 20 books in 7 languages, including Was ist und was motiviert eine sittliche Handlung? What Is and What Motivates a Moral Action?(1976), Das Leib-Seele Problem und die gegenwärtige philosophische Diskussion/The Body Mind Problem and the Contemporary Philosophical Discussion (1979), Back to Things in Themselves (1986); Essere e persona/Being and Person (1989); Sein und Wesen/Existence and Essence, 1996); Gott als Gottesbeweis/God as Proof of his own Existence. A Phenomenological Defense of the Ontological Argument (2nd ed. 2000). 300 articles in 20 languages.

ISBN: 978-3-86838-024-8
112 pp
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