Rehablitación de la filosofía práctica y neo-aristotelismo

Abstract

From the beginning of the sixties untill the end of the seventies, an intense debate took place in Germany that has become famous under the title “The Rehabilitation of Practical Philosophy”. Its origin is es-sentially found in the philosophical positions which, while fairly dif-ferent from one another, were later brought together under the single designation “neo-Aristotelism”. The recovery of the Aristotelian un-derstanding of praxis and of the ethical and political knowledge with which it is concerned has offered itself as an alternative paradigm for the unitary notion of science that characterizes modernity, and has opened a perspective from which it is once again possible to examine in a critical manner the identification of science with theory posited in modernity, as well as the paleo-modern and modern notion of reason and its development in the direction of mere instrumentality and func-tionalism. Therefore, despite quite a few unilateral decisions, the con-siderations and problems brought to our attention by the rehabilitation of practical philosophy and the neo-Aristotelians retain a disturbing relevance.