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Journal Article
On the Methodology of Social Science
2018
Overview
The question of the essence of knowledge – its meaning, its origin, its justification – seldomly disquiets the human mind as would be befitting for the depth and significance of the issue. As long as cognition provides useful content for both the practical as well as the ideational facets of life, we do not question its foundations; only when, based on our inner needs, we conceive of its results as unsatisfactory or antagonistic do we elevate the crucial problem of its justification, its meaning, its validity of this cognition to the forefront. Thus Kant’s epistemological critique formed, spanning a century and a half of the development in the natural sciences with the exception of mathematics and mechanics, and this critique was enthroned as legitimized knowledge contents, thus erecting a terrible contrast vis-à-vis the needs of the mind. Social-scientific cognition appears today to require a principled critique of itself, since in the never-ending disagreement about its content only one thing emerges without dispute: Its inadequacy in terms of the pressing need of time, which nevertheless seeks to appeal to this cognition.
Publisher
Duncker & Humblot Gmbh
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