Intellectual Paths and Pathologies

Download or read book Intellectual Paths and Pathologies written by Altug Yalcintas and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do ideas evolve actually? Often, there is more than one pathway of advancement in which different ideas emerge and flow in different directions. Does this mean that there is no advancement in intellectual history? Or, are pathways constituents of scholarship? This thesis argues that it is possible to understand the course of history as a bunch of overlapping, divergent, and endlessly changing pathways. Such pathways operate in different fashions. They sometimes lead to more coherent and higher levels of understanding. And sometimes they delay or obstruct advancement in intellectual history. In either way, outcomes are unpredictable and multi-directional.