Heinrich Rickert oraz Helmuth Plessner na temat prawomocności ilozoii życia
Heinrich Rickert and Helmuth Plessner on the Question of Validity of Philosophy of Life

Summary/Abstract: The starting point of my paper is a critique of philosophy of life as it has been presented by Heinrich Rickert in his book Die Philosophie des Lebens (1920). Rickert’s critique goes along the line of a dualistic opposition of a subjective and an objective sphere. Life is understood namely, on the one hand, as a subjective experience that by its very nature cannot be conceptualized and, on the other, as an objective natural phenomenon. In the second part of my presentation I focus on a critique that Helmuth Plessner formulated against Rickert’s position as well as I analyze his own proposition of philosophy of life. The crucial question of this part is if the philosophy of life as presented in Die Stufen des Organischen actually avoids the critique posed by Rickert. In his philosophy Plessner follows Dilthey’s hermeneutical method and combines it with a phenomenological approach by Husserl. In result we get a conception that treats life as an autonomous, “third” reality being located in between the subjective and an objective sphere. This solution makes it possible to overcome Rickert’s dualism as well as to propose such a philosophy of life that, first, is able to meet conceptual requirements of philosophical thinking and, second, to address life directly in its variability and dynamism.

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