Realphilosophie

The term Real philosophy goes back to Hegel. His Jena Real Philosophy of 1805/1806 contains lectures " to the philosophy of nature and the spirit." Hegel, the real philosophy of pure logic over: the real philosophy is thus a way of thinking on an empirical basis.

The philosopher Hegel devotes his real philosophy, among other things with phenomena of astronomy and biology. However, compared to a natural philosophy, the real philosophy is characterized in that it also incorporates social and cultural phenomena. It thus encompasses both natural philosophy and philosophy of culture.

More recently, the concept of experiencing a renaissance. The publicist Gábor Paál points to parallels between the idea of ​​a real philosophy and formulated by the U.S. literary agent John Brockman claim of a " third culture " in science ..