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Husserl and the Search for Certitude - Leszek Kolakowski by F3thinker ! is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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"[Husserl] better than anybody, compelled us to realize the painful dilemma of knowledge: either consistent empiricism, with its relativistic, skeptical results (a standpoint which many regard discouraging, inadmissible, and in fact ruinous for culture) or transcendental dogmatism, which cannot really justify itself and remains in the end an arbitrary decision. I have to admit that although ultimate certitude is a goal that cannot be attained within the rationalist framework, our culture would be poor and miserable without people who keep trying to reach this goal, and it hardly could survive when left entirely in the hands of the skeptics." - From the author's conclusion.<br> "Kolakowski's Husserl and the Search for Certitude consists of his three Cassirer Lectures, delivered at Yale in 1974. In broad, general terms, he places Husserl in the tradition of philosophers, from Descartes to the Logical positivists, who were engaged in the attempt to discover some knowledge which was certain and indubitable. His final view is that such a quest must fail. But he also argues that unless it is undertaken, the tension and disharmonies which exist between the claims of the skeptics and rela
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- Author
- F3thinker !
- Publisher
- Saint Augustine's Press, Incorporated
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781890318291
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.91 / 5 (11 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14