Practical philosophy

Practical Philosophy designated according to the Aristotelian tradition that part of the field of philosophy, from the disciplines of ethics, philosophy of law, political philosophy, political philosophy and the foundations of the economy (see also economic philosophy ) composed. Practical philosophy is the philosophical study of human practice.

History ( demolition )

This understanding of the practical philosophy goes back to Aristotle. He presented the theoretical philosophy, which depends on disinterested knowledge necessary reasons, practical philosophy (ethics, economics and politics ) against which refers to the assigned practical and political activity of man in the realm of what also can behave differently. This distinction was taken up in the 17th and 18th centuries and again - fixed terminology - especially in the school philosophy of Christian Wolff. Against the backdrop of demands for scientific, however perverted the sense of this distinction: Theoretical and practical philosophy should both be equally scientific.

After an often recorded distinguishing Immanuel Kant is the practical philosophy of what should be, while the theoretical philosophy deals with what is. Some interdisciplinary areas of contemporary philosophy oppose partially this dichotomy, see for example the critique of Jürgen Habermas Edmund Husserl and the controversy of the value of freedom of judgment.

Middle of the 19th century, the subdisciplines of practical philosophy began to specialize and gradually emerge as individual disciplines. Are the attempts to rehabilitate the "old" practical philosophy now before research results.