An inquiry into the philosophical foundations of the human sciences

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Claassen, Alfred
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : P. Lang, c2007.
Series:San Francisco State University series in philosophy ; v. 14.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Sectoralism and the basic dimensions of the human
  • The consummatory and instrumental
  • Levels of reflexivity
  • Id, ego, superid, and superego
  • Community, association, supercommunity, and superassociation
  • The ideal and real
  • Individualism and collectivism
  • Consciousness, character, space, and time
  • The impasse of sectoralism
  • Part II: Universalism and the complex dimensions of the human
  • The rational universal
  • Religion
  • Ethics
  • Individualism and collectivism in the universal
  • Balancing the balancing mechanism
  • Harmony and conflict
  • Part III: The epistemics of the human sciences
  • Dialectical historicism
  • Phenomenology and method in the human sciences
  • Aesthetics
  • Overcoming skepticism and radical relativism
  • Reunifying the human sciences under philosophy.