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  • Learning from the Economy and the People Friedrich List.

  • Amazon

  • Rational knowledge of science is also based on an irrational foundation (perspective)

  • This irrational foundation is replaced

    • The paradigm shift later described by Thomas Kuhn in “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”
  • Similar paradigms occur in the social sciences

    • Influencing Politics.

    • pragmatism and nationalism

    • Dewey, “The Quest for Certainty.”

    • Reject the dualism of theory/practice and knowledge/action

    • Knowledge is not the end of the quest, but the starting point

    • All knowledge is hypothetical

    • Practice is uncertainty (if it is certain, there is no need to practice)

    • Humans fear uncertainty; acting in the real world makes it impossible to escape uncertainty; escaping to the world of pure knowledge is a relief

    • A scientific attitude is the ability to enjoy doubt.”

  • Pioneer of the list Machiavelli.


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