Hermeneutics of Modernity and philosophy of Human sciences

Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

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humanities

10.30471/mssh.2024.9974.2525

Abstract

Abstract: Reza Davari Ardakani (1933 - ) in the book Philosophy in Crisis (the title of the second edition of Philosophy in the Trap of Ideology) of three possible encounters with the Human sciences (imitation of the Human sciences, serious entry and acceptance of its plan, and the third, falling into the foundations of the sciences) Human sciences, passing it and using the historical experience of these sciences to plan and solve the problems of the future society. It is in this third way that he considers the most important thing to know is to know briefly what is the plan of the new Islamic society and where do we want to go and reach? These reflections are expanded and deepened in the book Human Sciences and Development Planning (1390) and the book On Human Sciences (1399), in addition to the fact that Davari wrote the book after undergoing social and even political intellectual experiences four decades after the Islamic revolution. Davari's reading of the relationship between modernity/West, philosophy and Human sciences has a lot of convergence with continental philosophy and post-positivist currents in the philosophy of Human sciences. Contrary to the view of the positivist and analytical philosophy of the defender of science in the West, the "post-positivist" philosophy of Human sciences and social sciences was formed in the second half of the 20th century and on a different ideological background. It is not new and the post-positivist developments in philosophy and human sciences - mainly in science studies, from sociological, historical, cultural and feminist approaches to science - have challenged the previous authority of positivist discourse in science. We are faced with a range of approaches, from critical realism to Cohen's paradigm theory and Feyerabend's epistemic anarchism on the one hand, and sociological studies of science in the Edinburgh school, and post-structuralism, post-modernist and hermeneutic arguments, with all the diversity that can be found in it. am This article intends to adopt a Hermeneutic approach (with an emphasis on Dilthey's hermeneutics) and by analyzing the published texts of Dr. Davari, to discuss the relationship between philosophy and modernity/West and the Human Sciences in his opinion, and the possibilities and limitations of this type of philosophy of the Human Sciences for analyze and examine the problems of Human Sciences in contemporary Iran.

Abstract: Reza Davari Ardakani (1933 - ) in the book Philosophy in Crisis (the title of the second edition of Philosophy in the Trap of Ideology) of three possible encounters with the Human sciences (imitation of the Human sciences, serious entry and acceptance of its plan, and the third, falling into the foundations of the sciences) Human sciences, passing it and using the historical experience of these sciences to plan and solve the problems of the future society. It is in this third way that he considers the most important thing to know is to know briefly what is the plan of the new Islamic society and where do we want to go and reach? These reflections are expanded and deepened in the book Human Sciences and Development Planning (1390) and the book On Human Sciences (1399), in addition to the fact that Davari wrote the book after undergoing social and even political intellectual experiences four decades after the Islamic revolution. Davari's reading of the relationship between modernity/West, philosophy and Human sciences has a lot of convergence with continental philosophy and post-positivist currents in the philosophy of Human sciences. Contrary to the view of the positivist and analytical philosophy of the defender of science in the West, the "post-positivist" philosophy of Human sciences and social sciences was formed in the second half of the 20th century and on a different ideological background. It is not new and the post-positivist developments in philosophy and human sciences - mainly in science studies, from sociological, historical, cultural and feminist approaches to science - have challenged the previous authority of positivist discourse in science. We are faced with a range of approaches, from critical realism to Cohen's paradigm theory and Feyerabend's epistemic anarchism on the one hand, and sociological studies of science in the Edinburgh school, and post-structuralism, post-modernist and hermeneutic arguments, with all the diversity that can be found in it. am This article intends to adopt a Hermeneutic approach (with an emphasis on Dilthey's hermeneutics) and by analyzing the published texts of Dr. Davari, to discuss the relationship between philosophy and modernity/West and the Human Sciences in his opinion, and the possibilities and limitations of this type of philosophy of the Human Sciences for analyze and examine the problems of Human Sciences in contemporary Iran. am This article intends to adopt a Hermeneutic approach (with an emphasis on Dilthey's hermeneutics) and by analyzing the published texts of Dr. Davari, to discuss the relationship between philosophy and modernity/West and the Human Sciences in his opinion, and the possibilities and limitations of this type of philosophy of the Human Sciences for analyze and examine the problems of Human Sciences in contemporary Iran.

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