O "bełkocie" sfabrykowanego światopoglądu, czyli Józefa M. Bocheńskiego polemika z filozofią dialogu

Abstract

Joseph M. Bochenski in his philosophical works levels criticism against the philosophy of dialogue. It is a criticism from the position of analytic philosophy, which places a great emphasis on the scientific nature of a discussion. The following terms serve as indicators of the scientific character, i.e., (1) analysis, (2) language, (3) logy, (4) object. This means a rejection of the efforts to build an all-encompassing philosophical system in favor of addressing partial problems, linguistic precision and accuracy, using only rational methods and philosophical objectivity. Meanwhile, representatives of the philosophy of dialogue, to whom Tadeusz Gadacz and Joseph Tischner belong, maintain that for philosophy it is more important to seek the answers to questions that a person considers important rather than meet the rigors of science. Among these questions are the ones about the meaning of life, the causes of evil in the world, a way to implement values. Dialogists’ main object of interest is man and interpersonal relations. They consider the metaphorical language, which refers to myths and symbols, to be more suitable to express this reality than the literal one. Bocheński calls the language used by the philosophers of dialogue “babble” and their way of practicing philosophy a “fabrication of a world view.”