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The Need for Global Philosophy

2023; De Gruyter; Volume: 6; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1515/yewph-2023-0026

2196-5897

Stefan Gosepath,

African cultural and philosophical studies

The Need for Global Philosophy 1 Science is power (scientia potentia est), as Thomas Hobbes already asserted. 1What applies to science in general applies to philosophy as a science in particular: As institutions that exercise power, they are normative orders."Normative orders" rest on basic justifications and accordingly serve to justify social rules, norms and institutions; they establish claims to rule and to a certain distribution of goods and opportunities in life.In this respect, a normative order is to be regarded as a justification order: It presupposes justifications and generates them at the same time, in a never completed and complex process.Orders of this kind are embedded in justificatory narratives that emerge in specific historical constellations and are transmitted, modified and institutionalised over long periods of time. 2 Philosophy, especially the Western paradigm of philosophy, 3 figures as a system of knowledge and interpretation, thus as an order of knowledge, and, what's more, with hegemonic claims to power.It stands in an order of justification that is historically predetermined. 4 For reasons and justifications arise from historical Stefan Gosepath, Berlin,