This blog post calmly examines the insights Otto Hösle’s tripartite division of objectivity, subjectivity, and intersubjectivity provides into the structure and argumentation methods of philosophical writing. The definition of philosophical writing methods is directly linked to how we define the academic nature of philosophy. Unlike empirical sciences, where validity is determined...
This blog post examines how intermediate bodies function as a buffer zone between individuals and the state, strengthening civic virtue and political freedom to enhance the stability of democracy. The laws prohibiting intermediate groups enacted during the early stages of the French Revolution in 1789 sought to leave only individuals as rational, reasonable subjects in society. They banned...
This blog post examines the interpretive framework established by traditional art history and its limitations, exploring the need for new perspectives and expanded interpretive methods demanded by modern art. Emerging as an independent discipline in the 19th century, art history has primarily focused on formal analysis of works or employed iconography to decipher symbols within them. This...
This blog post examines how behavioral economics reveals the human irrationality and psychological biases overlooked by traditional stock price reflection theory, exploring what new insights it offers for investment decisions and market interpretation. Today, economics is also actively utilized in making legal judgments. One such case is “Basix v. Levinson,” where a ruling was made...
This blog post examines the mechanism linking the formation of Western modern law to the development of capitalism, specifically exploring the significance of legal predictability for economic activity. Upon the enactment of Germany’s unified civil code, Weber evaluated it as the supreme form of Western modern law, focusing his attention on elucidating the affinity between Western...
This blog post examines the structural reasons why the vague anxiety and indifference dominating modern society blur the threats to values individuals face and prevent them from formulating their concerns at all. What are the major issues for the public in this era, and what are the core concerns for private individuals? To formulate these issues and concerns, we must ask which of the...
This blog post examines how experience strategies accelerate development speed through intuition, iteration, and prototyping in highly uncertain markets, exploring how companies can respond nimbly to change. There are two primary strategies for developing new products. One is the compression strategy, which can be described as streamlining the development process. This strategy is...
This blog post examines how the process of reason suppressing inner nature expands into structures of domination between humans, analyzing the mechanisms of oppression created by instrumental reason. In enlightened modern society, the supreme purpose established by reason is ‘self-preservation.’ Consequently, nature is reduced to mere purposeless matter and a means for self-preservation...
In this blog post, we explore the scientific significance and new possibilities brought about by humanity’s first direct detection of gravitational waves, examining how it transformed modern physics and the way we observe the universe. The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three American physicists—Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss, and Barry Barish—who played a decisive role in...
This blog post explores the structural significance of normal science, examining how the gradual discoveries accumulated within a paradigm become the foundation for scientific revolution—rather than normal science being merely a period of stagnation. To explain the structure of scientific revolutions, Kuhn introduced the term ‘paradigm’. A paradigm refers to the widely accepted and...