Felix Oppenheim, Ernest Nagel, Anna Alexandrova, and Leo Strauss, part 3.
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In the “post-script” to a (2001) festschrift, Freedom, Power and Political Morality, devoted to him, Felix Oppenheim (1913-2011) rhetorically asks if he is the “lone survivor of a movement by now of merely historical interest?” and distances himself from the suggestion that he was a logical positivist because he rejects “operationalism and radical empiricism.” (p. 218) Rather, he prefers to understand himself as committed to
Felix Oppenheim, Ernest Nagel, Anna Alexandrova, and Leo Strauss, part 3.
Felix Oppenheim, Ernest Nagel, Anna…
Felix Oppenheim, Ernest Nagel, Anna Alexandrova, and Leo Strauss, part 3.
In the “post-script” to a (2001) festschrift, Freedom, Power and Political Morality, devoted to him, Felix Oppenheim (1913-2011) rhetorically asks if he is the “lone survivor of a movement by now of merely historical interest?” and distances himself from the suggestion that he was a logical positivist because he rejects “operationalism and radical empiricism.” (p. 218) Rather, he prefers to understand himself as committed to