pre-theoretical

Greek translation: προθεωρητικός

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English term or phrase:	pre-theoretical
Greek translation:	προθεωρητικός
Entered by:	Betty Revelioti

14:43 May 17, 2004

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Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. / biethics

English term or phrase: pre-theoretical

"Appeals to the common good have several important features that need clarification. First they do not necessarily require prior agreement on more comprehensive moral or political theories. It may be that they have a kind of pre-theoretical intuitrive force which different theories try to cature and formulate more precisely."

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προθεωρητικός

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προ-θεωρητικός

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προθεωρητικός

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προ-θεωρητικός

Betty Revelioti
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εμπειρικός, επιφαν&#

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Pre-theoretical concepts, or naive concepts, do not involve a dis-stasis from the continuity of cosmic time. Not every use of the logical aspect results in such dis-stasis. There is a naive use of logic, and a naive use of concepts. In Verniewing en Bezinning Dooyeweerd says that we must first learn to count with an abacus, and with balls. Later, we learn to count by abstraction. Dooyeweerd also says that in naive experience we make distinctions among the different realms–inorganic, organic and animal. Naive concepts of a thing differs from the functional concepts of the special sciences (I, 47; NC I, 83). Because there has been no dis-stasis, naive concepts are also not based on a synthesis (II, 404; NC II, 470). Naive thought is a resting, enstatic thought.

In the resting pre-theoretical intuition I, while thinking, experience the temporal reality as my own. In pre-theoretical intuition the transcendent root of our personality thinks inwardly [in-denken] en-statically in the cosmic temporal coherence of reality, and it consciously experiences the diversity of meaning, but without the articulated knowledge of the aspects. In contrast to theoretical self-consciousness we can speak here of a pre-theoretical cosmic self-consciousness. (II, 414; Cf. NC II, 479)

Naive concepts are also related to the sensory aspects of our experience:

Naοve analysis does not penetrate behind the objective perceptual appearance [oogenschijn] and can therefore not comprehend in a synthetic [inter-modal] sense the functional laws of the law spheres. It makes do with pre-theoretical, practically oriented distinctions, which find their touchstone in the sensory aspect of experience and are not ordered from out of a systematic-methodical viewpoint. (II, 404)

The NC expands this to say,
The truth is that the naive concept of a thing remains embedded in the full temporal systasis of naive experience forming an indissoluble subjective component part of it. This is the reason why pre-theoretical thought is unable to analyse the modal aspects of the reality of a thing. Naive analysis does not penetrate behind the objective outward appearance, and cannot embrace the functional laws of the modal spheres in an inter-modal synthesis of meaning. It has to be satisfied with pre-theoretical distinctions oriented to the praxis and more or less verifiable in the sensory aspect of experience. These distinctions are not arranged according to a systematical-methodical viewpoint (NC II, 470).

This passage seems to view naive experience as related to "empirical" reality in that it is verified by our senses. It is related to the "objective outward appearance" of things and does not penetrate behind this. In the WdW Dooyeweerd calls this outward appearance the "objective" perceptual appearance.

http://www.members.shaw.ca/jgfriesen/Definitions/Concept.htm...

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Vicky Papaprodromou
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