Book chapter
Theoria in Cusanus and Gadamer: The Joy of Contemplation
Cusanus Today, pp.43-58
Catholic University of America Press
2024
DOI: 10.2307/jj.17207146.9
Abstract
I recently encountered the modern meaning of theory in a story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes insists that he needs more data before he can form a theory about the strange case of “The Speckled Band.”² By Conan Doyle’s time, theory had come to mean an abstract explanatory understanding regarding an observed set of facts, as in Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments or Darwin’s “theory of natural selection.” According to Hans Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law, first published in 1960, theory wants “to know and to describe its object.”³ For the ancient Greeks, however, the term θεωρία
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Theoria in Cusanus and Gadamer: The Joy of Contemplation
- Creators
- MICHAEL EDWARD Moore
- Contributors
- David Albertson (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Cusanus Today, pp.43-58
- Publisher
- Catholic University of America Press; Washington, DC
- DOI
- 10.2307/jj.17207146.9
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2024
- Academic Unit
- History
- Record Identifier
- 9984658349602771
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