Empirical positivism and speculative idealism are mirror forms of anti-historicism.
Evidence
If “speculative idealism” is the science of categories and of the a priori synthesis of the spirit, i.e. a form of anti-historicist abstraction, the philosophy implicit in the Popular Manual is idealism upside down, in the sense that the speculative categories are replaced by empirical concepts and classifications which are no less abstract and anti-historical. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1555
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- XREF: Challenges the common assumption that empiricism is the antidote to idealism — both are anti-historical. Relevant for how Islamophobia critique treats ‘objective’ empirical claims about the Other as equally ideological.
Related
- Philosophical truths are historically conditioned yet avoid relativism. (similarity 0.78)