Between cognition and discourse: Robert Spaemann’s classical aspects of philosophizing

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https://doi.org/10.7213/1980-5934.33.058.AO05

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Robert Spaemann, classical philosophy, discourse, Lublin Philosophical School, concept of philosophy

Abstract

The German philosopher Robert Spaemann proposed a complex but incomplete concept of philosophy. It has features of a classical approach, but it is difficult to define what is classical in it. Its comparison to the contemporary version of classical philosophy developed by the Lublin School of Philosophy shows that Spaemann may be considered as a representative of a classical, though not metaphysical, manner of philosophizing. Both in philosophy, systematically perceived as a type of cognition, and history, perceived as a type of discourse, classical influences can be observed in terms of the concept of philosophy, its object, purpose, and method. Despite the tension between philosophy as the cognition and philosophy as the discourse, in his concept these two aspects cannot be reduced one to another and cannot be separate from each other. The awareness that philosophy is an endless and controversial discourse on ultimate problems does not relieve philosophers from their efforts to pursue the truth about reality. And this is how Spaemann looks at his own philosophising.

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Piotr Stanisław Mazur, Jesuit University in Cracow

Department of Philosophy

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2021-04-05

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Mazur, P. S. (2021). Between cognition and discourse: Robert Spaemann’s classical aspects of philosophizing. Revista De Filosofia Aurora, 33(58). https://doi.org/10.7213/1980-5934.33.058.AO05