The Nature of Scientific Philosophy

Yaroslav Shramko

doi:10.12775/LLP.2019.029

Autor

Yaroslav Shramko Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4843-0328

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12775/LLP.2019.029

Słowa kluczowe

science, philosophy, mathematics, a priori knowledge, principle of duality, quantity, quality

Abstrakt

The goal of this paper is to explain the nature of philosophy as a distinct science with its own subject-matter. This is achieved through a comparative analysis of mathematical and philosophical knowledge that reveals a profound similarity between mathematics and philosophy as mutually complementary sciences exploring the field of abstract entities that can be comprehended only by purely a priori theoretical inquiry. By considering this complementarity, a general definition of philosophy can be obtained by dualizing the traditional Aristotelian definition of mathematics as the “science of quantity”. Philosophy should thus be interpreted as an a priori science of the pure qualitative attributes of being.

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