Some Remarks on the Interpretative Categories of Early Modern Philosophy
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https://doi.org/10.12775/RF.2016.012Keywords
Early Modern Philosophy, History of Philosophy Methodology, Rationalism, Empiricism, Max Weber, Ideal Types TheoryAbstract
The paper considers the common strategy of interpreting Early Modern Philosophy in terms of the following opposing categories: Rationalism and Empiricism. Following Knud Haakonssen, it analyses origins and the criterion for this distinction in a formation process of the so-called philosophical history of philosophy in the nineteenth century. It emphasizes serious limitations of such interpretative categories and suggests a possibility of the supplementary interpretation of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy in terms of the Weberian ideal types.
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