The Non-Conformity and the Critical Reflection in the Authentic Philosophical Mindset Cover Image

Nonkonformizmas Ir Kritinė Refleksija Autentiškoje Filosofinėje Mąstysenoje
The Non-Conformity and the Critical Reflection in the Authentic Philosophical Mindset

Author(s): Žilvinas Vareikis
Subject(s): Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, History of Education, 19th Century, Sociology of Education
Published by: Visuomeninė organizacija »LOGOS«
Keywords: non-conformity; school-dogmatism; imaginative investigation; metaphor; social reality;

Summary/Abstract: Uainf special historical cases – the Lithuanian rebellion in 1863, Algis Uždavinys and Herodot stories –, the article discusses the non-conformity position of Paul Feyerabend. A freelyh engaged non-conformity position does not reconcile oneself to the conformity of school-dogmatism. It performs critical reflection duties in the society. In this named respect the position of the non-conformity stimulates the interest of free science and thus it develops curiuos investigations of the concrete historical situation. Contrary to the school-dogmatism, which bases oneself on the one dimensional truth of the specific scientific school, nonconformity takes root in a self cognition and it leans on the understanding of the particular social context which is free from dogmatic methodologies of the slave science.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 75
  • Page Range: 214-222
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Lithuanian