Concept
Praxis (process)
Overview
Praxis is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, realized, applied, or put into practice. "Praxis" may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practising ideas. This has been a recurrent topic in the field of philosophy, discussed in the writings of Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Francis Bacon, Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Paul Sartre, and many others. It has meaning in the political, educational, spiritual and medical realms.
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The question if objective truth is possible to human thought is not a theoretical but a practical question. In practice man must prove the truth, that is the reality and force in his actual thoughts. The dispute as to the reality or non-reality of thought which separates itself, "the praxis," is a purely scholastic question. The materialistic doctrine that men are the products of conditions and education, different…
Friedrich Engels, Feuerbach
Names Praxis several times; the author is tied to Praxis in the knowledge graph.
So as the exercise fitteth not the practice, nor the image the life; and it is ever a true rule in exercises, that they be framed as near as may be to the life of practice; for otherwise they do pervert the motions and faculties of the mind, and not prepare them. The truth whereof is not obscure, when scholars come to the practices of professions, or other actions of civil life; which when they set into, this want…
Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
States what Praxis is; the author is tied to Praxis in the knowledge graph.
Thus we see that Philosophy is system in development; the history of Philosophy is the same; and this is the main point to be noted and the first principle to be dealt with in this treatise on that history. In order to make this evident, the difference in respect to the possible modes of manifestation must first be pointed out.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
The author is tied to Praxis in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Praxis (process)
- Kitarō Nishida
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe
- Antonio Negri
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Giorgio Agamben
- Ludwig Feuerbach
- Moses Hess
- Friedrich Engels
- Bruno Bauer
- Roy Bhaskar
- August Cieszkowski
- Christos Yannaras
Related ideas
- Francis Bacon
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Immanuel Kant
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Karl Marx
- Learning
- Marxism
- Materialism
- Meditation
- Augustine of Hippo
- Critique of Dialectical Reason
- Frankfurt School
- Plato
- Politics
- Socialism
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Spirituality
- Theory
- Aristotle
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Martin Heidegger
- Ludwig Feuerbach
- Working class
- György Lukács
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Anarchism.