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Carl Friedrich Von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Philosophy SPRINGER BRIEFS ON PIONEERS IN SCIENCE AND PRACTICE TEXTS AND PROTOCOLS 23 Michael Drieschner Editor Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Philosophy Knowledge and Responsibility Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Society & Foundation SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice Texts and Protocols Volume 23 Series editor Hans Günter Brauch, Mosbach, Germany For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/11446 http://www.afes-press-books.de/html/SpringerBriefs_PSP.htm http://www.afes-press-books.de/html/SpringerBriefs_PSP_TP.htm Michael Drieschner Editor Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Philosophy Knowledge and Responsibility Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker 123 Society & Foundation Editor Michael Drieschner Munich Germany ISSN 2194-3125 ISSN 2194-3133 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-03670-0 ISBN 978-3-319-03671-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-03671-7 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014937683 Ó The Author(s) 2014 This work is subject to copyright. 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Copyediting: PD Dr. Hans Günter Brauch, AFES-PRESS e.V., Mosbach, Germany Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker in Leipzig (1936). Ó The Weizsäcker Family represented by Dr. Elisabeth Raiser who granted permission to use this photo Other Books on Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Published in this Book Series by Springer • Ulrich Bartosch (Ed.): Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Pioneer of Physics, Philosophy, Religion, Politics and Peace Research. Springer Briefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice No. 21. (Cham–Heidelberg–Dordrecht–London–New York: Springer-Verlag, 2015). • Michael Drieschner (Ed.): Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Physics. Springer Briefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice No. 22. Subseries Texts and Protocols No. 10 (Cham–Heidelberg–Dordrecht–London–New York: Springer-Verlag, 2014). • Konrad Raiser (Ed.): Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Religion. Springer Briefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice No. 24. Subseries Texts and Protocols No. 12 (Cham–Heidelberg–Dordrecht–London–New York: Springer- Verlag, 2014). • Ulrich Bartosch (Ed.): Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts on Politics and Peace Research. Springer Briefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice No. 25. Subseries Texts and Protocols No. 13 (Cham–Heidelberg–Dordrecht–London– New York: Springer-Verlag, 2015). • See also the website on these five books with texts by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, at: \http://afes-press-books.de/html/SpringerBriefs_PSP_C.F.v._ Weizsaecker.htm[. vii Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1940). Ó The Weizsäcker Family represented by Dr. Elisabeth Raiser who granted permission to use this photo Acknowledgments and Sources The editors express appreciation to the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Foundation and to Dr. Bruno Redeker for the permission to use the texts and translations from the volumes The Ambivalence of Progress (New York: Paragon House, 1988) and The Unity of Nature (New York: Farrar-Strauss-Giroux - Macmillan, 1980). Both publishers do not list these books any more in their programme nor do they list Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker as an author. They were informed by Dr. Redeker as the representative of the bequest of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker that the copyrights for all publications of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker were transferred to the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Foundation. Neither publisher replied to the question whether they plan new editions of the books. Therefore, the rights were retransferred to the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Foundation, which granted permission to reprint all texts. The financial support of the Udo Keller Foundation is also gratefully acknowledged. The editor further thanks Mr. Mike Headon for language editing and Mr. Thomas Bast for IT support, as well as all colleagues of Springer pub- lishers in Heidelberg and Chennai for their efforts to produce a good book. Special thanks go to Ms. Ann Hentschel for the new translations and, last but not least, to Adj. Prof. Hans Günter Brauch, the editor of the series, for his inestimable constant support. The texts of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker in this volume were initially published in: 1. ‘‘Preliminary Epistemological Considerations’’, in: Zeit und Wissen (Munich: Hanser, 1992); Part I, Second Chapter; new translation. 2. ‘‘A Description of Physics’’: in: The Unity of Nature (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980); translation of: Die Einheit der Natur (Munich: Hanser, 1971): I, 6. 3. ‘‘Time–Physics–Metaphysics’’, in: Der Mensch in seiner Geschichte (Munich: Hanser, 1991), new translation. 4. ‘‘Biological Preliminaries to Logic’’, in: The Ambivalence of Progress (New York: Paragon House, 1988); translation of: Der Garten des Menschlichen (Munich: Hanser, 1977): II, 6. 5. ‘‘Models of Health and Illness, Good and Evil, Truth and Falseness’’, in: The Unity of Nature (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980); translation of: Die Einheit der Natur, (Munich: Hanser, 1971): III, 4. ix x Acknowledgments and Sources 6. ‘‘Parmenides and the Greylag Goose’’, in: The Unity of Nature (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980); translation of: Die Einheit der Natur (Munich: Hanser, 1971): IV, 5. 7. ‘‘Parmenides and Quantum Theory’’, in: The Unity of Nature (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980); translation of: Die Einheit der Natur (Munich: Hanser, 1971): IV, 6. 8. ‘‘Possibility and Movement: A Note on Aristotelian Physics’’, in: The Unity of Nature (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980); translation of: Die Einheit der Natur (Munich: Hanser, 1971): IV, 4. 9. ‘‘The Rationality of Emotions’’, in: The Ambivalence of Progress (New York: Paragon House, 1988); translation of: Der Garten des Menschlichen (Munich: Hanser, 1977): II, 4. 10. ‘‘On Power’’, in: The Ambivalence of Progress (New York: Paragon House, 1988), translation of: Der Garten des Menschlichen (Munich: Hanser, 1977): II, 5. Contents 1 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Philosophy—A Brief Introduction by the Editor ........... 1 References . 10 2 Preliminary Epistemological Considerations ................ 11 2.1 Similes for the Structure of Physics . 11 2.2 Cognition . 14 2.3 Doubt . 16 2.4 Faith . 20 2.5 Methodological Consequences . 23 Reference . 27 3 A Description of Physics ............................... 29 3.1 The Role of Physics . 29 3.2 An Anecdote as an Eye Catcher . 30 3.3 A Historical Example . 32 3.4 Philosophy of Physics . 33 3.4.1 Theological Platonism. 33 3.4.2 The World as Mechanism . 35 3.4.3 Empiricism as a Description of Physics. 36 3.4.4 Difficulties of Fundamental Empiricism . 38 3.4.5 Scientific Perception . 41 References . 43 4 Time: Physics—Metaphysics ............................ 45 4.1 Metaphysics. 45 4.2 Physics . 49 4.3 Evolution. 52 4.4 Culture . 55 xi xii Contents 5 Biological Preliminaries to Logic......................... 61 5.1 The Question . 61 5.2 The Place of Logic . 63 5.3 Practical Interpretation of the Bivalence of Logic. 64 5.4 The Basis of the Subject-Predicate Structure of Sentences. 68 Reference . 73 6 Models of Health and Illness, Good and Evil, Truth and Falseness .................................. 75 6.1 Health . 76 6.2 Illness . 80 6.3 Progress . 82 6.4 Good and Evil . 84 6.5 Truth. 86 References . 89 7 Parmenides and the Graylag Goose....................... 91 7.1 What This Essay Is About . 92 7.2 The Idea of the Graylag Goose . 96 7.3 The Form in Things and as Thought. 98 7.4 Form as Example . 105 References . 108 8 Parmenides and Quantum Theory........................ 109 8.1 What Does the Unity of Nature Mean? . 109 8.2 A Digression: How Can One Read the Philosophers? . 112 8.3 What Were Parmenides and Plato Talking About? . 115 8.4 The First Hypothesis of the Platonic Parmenides and Quantum Theory . 119 8.5 The Approach to the Second Hypothesis . 125 References . 126 9 Possibility and Movement: A Note on Aristotelian Physics ...... 127 References . 137 10 The Rationality of Emotions ............................ 139 10.1 The Concept of Interest. 139 10.2 Place and Action (Possession, Domination, Power). 141 10.3 Love . 144 10.4 Insight. 146 10.5 Values. 150 10.6 The Enlightenment . 153 10.7 World Peace and Self-Realization. 154 Contents xiii 11 On Power.......................................... 159 11.1 The School of Political Realism .
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