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The epistemology of mastery

The epistemology of mastery Given the anarchy which unavoidably rules in the philosophical world because it only recognizes an invisible thing, reason, as its legitimate sovereign, it has always been nec- essary to rally ... around some single great man as a unifying point. Kant, 'On a Discovery According to which Any New Critique of Pure Reason Has Been Made Superfluous by an Earlier One' is there no other kind of spe- Jonathan derbyshire cialised knowledge which exemplifies so many masters as does philosophy?' This is a question Kant asks in the announcement of his lecture programme for the winter semes- TH E ter of 1765-1766.1 The programme, although it was also to include courses on 'physical, EPISTEMOLOG Y moral and political' geography, in which Kant felt students were being seriously OF MASTERY neglected, contained the traditional and pre- dictable topics of metaphysics, logic and ethics, for which he proposed to follow, with Philosophy, particularly metaphysics, the certain modifications here and there, the so-called 'queen of the sciences', is afflicted handbooks of the schools, notably those of by the party-spirit, overrun with 'masters', Baumgarten and Maier. The question itself, because, unlike history or jurisprudence, for however, is enough to indicate that this intro- http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities Taylor & Francis

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The epistemology of mastery

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Given the anarchy which unavoidably rules in the philosophical world because it only recognizes an invisible thing, reason, as its legitimate sovereign, it has always been nec- essary to rally ... around some single great man as a unifying point. Kant, 'On a Discovery According to which Any New Critique of Pure Reason Has Been Made Superfluous by an Earlier One' is there no other kind of spe- Jonathan derbyshire cialised knowledge which exemplifies so many masters as does...
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Given the anarchy which unavoidably rules in the philosophical world because it only recognizes an invisible thing, reason, as its legitimate sovereign, it has always been nec- essary to rally ... around some single great man as a unifying point. Kant, 'On a Discovery According to which Any New Critique of Pure Reason Has Been Made Superfluous by an Earlier One' is there no other kind of spe- Jonathan derbyshire cialised knowledge which exemplifies so many masters as does philosophy?' This is a question Kant asks in the announcement of his lecture programme for the winter semes- TH E ter of 1765-1766.1 The programme, although it was also to include courses on 'physical, EPISTEMOLOG Y moral and political' geography, in which Kant felt students were being seriously OF MASTERY neglected, contained the traditional and pre- dictable topics of metaphysics, logic and ethics, for which he proposed to follow, with Philosophy, particularly metaphysics, the certain modifications here and there, the so-called 'queen of the sciences', is afflicted handbooks of the schools, notably those of by the party-spirit, overrun with 'masters', Baumgarten and Maier. The question itself, because, unlike history or jurisprudence, for however, is enough to indicate that this intro-

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Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jan 1, 1997

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