Pseudophilosophy

Pseudo- philosophy is a pejorative term used for ideas or mental systems that claim to be philosophical, but not owned by an actual philosophical content. The classification as a pseudo- philosophy an accusation of abuse of rational argumentation is partly connected. The term is used only sporadically and inconsistently.

Prove the concept in the 16th century in the humanist Mario Nizolio, 1553 the magazine " De veris et vera ratione Principiis philosophandi contra pseudo philosophos " published. This document was considered by his admirers Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was so important that Leibniz in 1670 under the name " Antibarbarus Philosophicus " newly published.

In the 19th century, Schopenhauer refers to the period between him and Kant as pseudo- philosophy:

" Here, then, always is the way in which I am gone beyond Kant and the power drawn by him frontier, but on the ground of reflection, thus the integrity, holding me, so without the windbeutelnde pretending intellektualer intuition, or absolute thinking, which the period of pseudo- philosophy between Kant and characterizes me. "

For Adorno, not only in writing philosophical treatises, but also artistic expression can be pseudo- philosophical. Thus he writes in the review of Janácek's opera " The Makropulos Affair ":

It is the strongest argument for the music that they failed at this pathetic pseudo- philosophy and, as is inevitable in pantheistic transfiguration after all, falls in thoroughly hollowed ecstasy.