SCIENTIFIC PASSIONS

IN SEARCH OF THE AFFECTIVE PROFILE OF SCIENCE IN HEIDEGGER’S PHILOSOPHY FROM THE MARBURG PERIOD

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to detect a passional mode associated to the theoretical activities of science in general, as a means to opose the traditional positivistic conception that considers science as an activity that lacks of an affective dimension. For that, we will focus in the heideggerian philosophy from the Marburg-period (1923-1927), and in the fundamamental notion of co-originariety of the existential phenomena. For the development of our research we will begin by an analysis of the aristotelian treatment of affective dispositions associated to the theoretical attitude (Bíos theoretikós); later on, we will analize the Heideggerian reception of this concepts, and their subsequent development from an existential perspective.