Tradition
Critical philosophy
Overview
viewpoint according to which the primary task of philosophy is criticism (judging as to the possibilities of knowledge), rather than justification of knowledge
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II. _The Critical Philosophy._ 40.] In common with Empiricism the Critical Philosophy assumes that experience affords the one sole foundation for cognitions; which however it does not allow to rank as truths, but only as knowledge of phenomena. The Critical theory starts originally from the distinction of elements presented in the analysis of experience, viz. the matter of sense, and its universal relations.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
States what Critical philosophy is; the author is tied to Critical philosophy in the knowledge graph.
But all philosophy is either cognition on the basis of pure reason, or the cognition of reason on the basis of empirical principles. The former is termed pure, the latter empirical philosophy. The philosophy of pure reason is either propædeutic, that is, an inquiry into the powers of reason in regard to pure à priori cognition, and is termed critical philosophy; or it is, secondly, the system of pure reason—a…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
States what Critical philosophy is; the author is tied to Critical philosophy in the knowledge graph.
The criticism aimed at, in a word, is not that which, without reason, determines to reject, but that which considers each piece of apparent knowledge on its merits, and retains whatever still appears to be knowledge when this consideration is completed. That some risk of error remains must be admitted, since human beings are fallible.
Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
Close in meaning to Critical philosophy; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Critical philosophy
- Richard Avenarius
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Immanuel Kant
- Jakob Friedrich Fries
- Hermann Lotze
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Gottlob Frege
- Léon Brunschvicg
- Leonard Nelson
Related ideas
- Immanuel Kant
- Metaphysics
- Johann Georg Hamann
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- Critique of Pure Reason
- Dogma
- Critique of Practical Reason
- Teleology
- Ethics
- Léon Brunschvicg
- Charles Renouvier
Place in the tradition
Part of Humanism.