NOTES ON THE PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY OF THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Authors

  • Leandro Neves Cardim Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/phi.v17i1.16894

Keywords:

Spirit, concrete, universal, particular.

Abstract

We shall place ourselves beside Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy to shed light on the notion of concrete, which brings in it the fact and the essence, the particle and the universal, in doing so we shall be opposed to the theoretical attitude, named by Merleau-Ponty “small rationalism”, of the early twentieth century. Firstly, we shall remember how the philosopher characterizes the theoretical attitude that reduces everything that can be said about the world to the scientific. After, we shall briefly insist upon the fact that this theoretical attitude is not far from a highly naïf political attitude which is unaware of the world it belongs to. According to Merleau-Ponty, in order to understanding the rapports between the sense and the non-sense it is necessary a new conception of reason: not a reason which operates by concepts on the background of an unquestionable rationality, but a reason that considers its origins.

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Author Biography

Leandro Neves Cardim, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)

Departamento de Filosofia da Universidade Federal do Paraná; área: filosofia contemporânea (fenomenologia, ontologia, epistemologia histórica, estética).

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Published

2012-09-15

How to Cite

CARDIM, Leandro Neves. NOTES ON THE PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY OF THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY. Philósophos a journal of philosophy, Goiânia, v. 17, n. 1, p. 87–107, 2012. DOI: 10.5216/phi.v17i1.16894. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/philosophos/article/view/16894. Acesso em: 1 feb. 2026.

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 1 (2012): French Philosophy

Section

Dossiê de Artigos Originais

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