The Scientific Cosmists

Young, George M.

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“…Both Koyré and Kojève were influenced by the Russian Cosmist philosopher Vladimir Solovyov, who imported Hegel to Russia to fortify the mid-19th-century ‘Slavophile’ movement that blended theological and scientific sensibilities in a forward-looking nationalist vision. Crucial to the blending was a rather materialist reading of the Eastern Orthodox Christian doctrine of theosis , whereby humans come to display their godlike character in the ‘imitation of Christ’, where this phrase involves what Solovyov called apravdanie , which corresponds to what Hegel called Aufhebung , rendered in English as ‘sublation’, whereby we escape what holds us back from achieving a higher state of being without completely forgetting its enabling conditions (Michelson, 2010; Young, 2012: ch. 8).…”

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The metaphysical standing of the human: A future for the history of the human sciences

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History of the Human Sciences

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I reconstruct my own journey into the history of the human sciences, which I show to have been a process of discovering the metaphysical standing of the human. I begin with Alexandre Koyré’s encounter with Edmund Husserl in the 1930s, which I use to throw light on the legacy of Kant’s ‘anthropological’ understanding of the human, which dominated and limited 19th-century science. As I show, those who broke from Kant’s strictures and set the stage for the 20th-century revolutions in science - from Hegel, to John McTaggart, to Max Weber - typically were pursuing crypto-theological questions about how a finite being can comprehend an infinite universe. This journey is about the ‘common measure’ of being human, which is what links Plato to Kuhn, but has been most consistently taken up by law. I suggest that in seeking this ‘measure of man’, we may discover that to be human is not necessarily to be Homo sapiens, which would suggest a radical reorientation of the history of the human sciences.

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The metaphysical standing of the human: A future for the history of the human sciences

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