Freyer grounded each science in a distinct epistemic attitude toward life.

Evidence

Freyer saw a Kantian questioning of the conditions of possibility of natural science, history and sociology as being a precondition for this, although the answer need not necessarily turn out to be a Kantian one. The answer Freyer himself gave was that he saw a conscious will to knowledge', a marked epistemic attitude’, as being the precondition for the scientific character of forms of knowledge. He distinguished between three forms of epistemic attitude, corresponding to three differently structured types of objects and three forms of relation to life in these objects. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 604

Categorization

• XREF: Structural parallel with Habermas’s technical, practical, and emancipatory knowledge interests, which also code sciences by attitude. — connects to: Freyer grounded scientific status in three distinct epistemic attitudes. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2435; Freyer grounded natural science’s attitude in a primary technological will to cultivate the earth. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2436; Each empirical tendency expresses the whole person, not merely a part — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1326
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Freyer grounded scientific status in three distinct epistemic attitudes. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2435; Freyer grounded natural science’s attitude in a primary technological will to cultivate the earth. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2436; Each empirical tendency expresses the whole person, not merely a part — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1326

Broader Connections

• Freyer grounded scientific status in three distinct epistemic attitudes. #expands (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2435