Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 PhD Candidate of Philosophy, University of Tabriz
2 Associate Professor of Philosophy Department, University of Tabriz
Abstract
Masson Oursel is considered as the father of comparative (or as some believe, compared) philosophy. His work is influenced by two main stream of thought in the early twentieth century: historicism and positivism. By appealing the comparative method, Oursel, in his book, La philosophie comparee (comparative philosophy), aims to make philosophy free from both absolute dogmatism and relativism. To accomplish this, he makes some close relation among abjective facts with their historical formation context, so that one cannot understand completely one without the other. Oursel believes that different philosophies and historical periods, would better to be compared. In their cultural context, with each other through analogy. He was convinced that in any society or civilization, there is not a solitary/individual historical fact which could not be interpreted comparatively an in accordance with positive scientific method
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