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Paul Karl Feyerabend war ein österreichischer Philosoph und Wissenschaftstheoretiker. Er war von 1958 bis 1989 Philosophieprofessor an der Universität von Kalifornien in Berkeley und lebte zeitweilig in England, Deutschland, Neuseeland, Italien, zuletzt in der Schweiz, wo er als Hochschullehrer an der ETH Zürich tätig war.

Bekannt wurde Feyerabend durch seinen wissenschaftstheoretischen Anarchismus. Nach Feyerabend lassen sich keine universellen und ahistorischen wissenschaftlichen Methoden formulieren, produktive Wissenschaft müsse vielmehr Methoden nach Belieben verändern, einführen und aufgeben dürfen. Zudem gebe es keine allgemeinen Maßstäbe, mit denen verschiedene wissenschaftliche Methoden oder Traditionen bewertet werden könnten. Das Fehlen allgemeiner Bewertungsmaßstäbe führt ihn zu einem philosophischen Relativismus, nach dem keine Theorie allgemein wahr oder falsch ist. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. Januar 1924 – 11. Februar 1994
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„Der einzige Grundsatz, der den Fortschritt nicht behindert, lautet: Anything goes.“

Paul Feyerabend buch Wider den Methodenzwang

Mach, was du willst <br class="br">Wider den Methodenzwang: Skizze einer anarchistischen Erkenntnistheorie. Übersetzung Hermann Vetter. Suhrkamp 1979, S.5 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=pdW4AAAAIAAJ&amp;dq=anything

„Es ist kurzsichtig anzunehmen, dass man ›Lösungen‹ für Menschen hat, an deren Leben man nicht teilnimmt und deren Probleme man nicht kennt.“

Paul Feyerabend buch Erkenntnis für freie Menschen

Erkenntnis für freie Menschen. edition suhrkamp 1980, S.237 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=OMXGAAAAIAAJ&amp;q=eingebildet

„Fortschritt in eine Richtung kommt nicht ohne Aufhebung der Möglichkeit zum Fortschritt in eine andere Richtung zustande.“

Paul Feyerabend buch Erkenntnis für freie Menschen

Erkenntnis für freie Menschen. Suhrkamp 1979, S.147 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=c713AAAAMAAJ&amp;q=richtung; edition suhrkamp 1980, S.172 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=OMXGAAAAIAAJ&amp;q=richtung

„Selbst Scheinfächer wie die Wissenschaftstheorie, die der Wissenschaft ihren Namen, der diese aber keine einzige brauchbare Idee verdankt, werden weit über den Wert ihrer positiven Beiträge finanziert.“

Paul Feyerabend buch Wider den Methodenzwang

Wider den Methodenzwang: Skizze einer anarchistischen Erkenntnistheorie. Übersetzung Hermann Vetter. Suhrkamp 1979, S.12 https://books.google.de/books?id=pdW4AAAAIAAJ&amp;dq=scheinfächer- 13 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=pdW4AAAAIAAJ&amp;dq=finanziert

„[…] der wird einsehen, daß es nur einen Grundsatz gibt, der sich unter allen Umständen und in allen Stadien der menschlichen Entwicklung vertreten läßt. Es ist der Grundsatz: Anything goes.“

Paul Feyerabend buch Wider den Methodenzwang

Mach, was du willst <br class="br"> S.45 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=pdW4AAAAIAAJ&amp;dq=%22allen+umst%C3%A4nden%22 <br class="br">&quot;[...] it will become clear that there is only one principle that can be defended under all circumstances and in all stages of human development. It is the principle: anything goes.&quot; - Against Method: Outline of an Anarchist Theory of Knowledge.

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“The sciences of today are business enterprises run on business principles. Research in large institutes is not guided by Truth and Reason but by the most rewarding fashion, and the great minds of today increasingly turn to where the money is - which means military matters.”

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Paul Karl Feyerabend buch Farewell to Reason

pg 102.
Farewell to Reason (1987)

“Humane science must be adapted to the requirements of a balanced and rewarding life.”

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pg 217.
Conquest of Abundance (2001 [posthumous])

“Rationalism… is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God.”

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Paul Karl Feyerabend buch Wider den Methodenzwang

Pg 227.
Against Method (1975)

“Science is not sacrosanct. The mere fact that it exists, is admired, has results is not sufficient for making it a measure of excellence. Modern science arose from global objections against earlier views and rationalism itself, the idea that there are general rules and standards for conducting our affairs, affairs of knowledge included, arose from global objections to common sense.”

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Quelle: Against Method (1975), p. 223.

“The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them.”

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Paul Karl Feyerabend buch Erkenntnis für freie Menschen

pg 35.
Science in a Free Society (1978)

“The ideas survived and they can now be said to be in agreement with reason. They survived because prejudice, passion, conceit, errors, sheer pigheadedness, in short because all the elements that characterize the context of discovery, opposed the dictates of reason and because these irrational elements were permitted to have their way. To express it differently: Copernicanism and other "rational" views exist today only because reason was overruled at some time in their past. (The opposite is also true: witchcraft and other "irrational" views had ceased to be influential only because reason was overruled at some time in their past.)”

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Pg. 155.
Against Method (1975)

“Today science prevails not because of its comparative merits, but because the show has been rigged in its favour… It reigns supreme because some past successes have led to institutional measures (education; role of experts; role of power groups such as the AMA) that prevent a comeback of the rivals.”

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Paul Karl Feyerabend buch Erkenntnis für freie Menschen

pg 102.
Science in a Free Society (1978)

“If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for universal norms tyrannical: only brute force (or seductive deception) can then bend the different moralities so that they fit the prescriptions of a single ethical system. And indeed, the idea of universal laws of nature and society arose in connection with a life-and-death battle: the battle that gave Zeus the power over the Titans and all other gods and thus turned his laws into the laws of the universe.”

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Paul Karl Feyerabend buch Farewell to Reason

pg 99, italics are feyerabends
Farewell to Reason (1987)

“All religion may be centered around a generally good idea, however, this has not stopped its adherents from acting like bastards”

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Paul Karl Feyerabend buch Farewell to Reason

123.
Farewell to Reason (1987)

“Language became a colorless and as indistinct as the business suit which is now worm by everyone, by the scholar, by the businessman, by the professional killer. Being accustomed to a dry and dreary norm and sees in it an obvious sign of arrogance and aggression; viewing authority with almost religious awe he gets into a frenzy when he sees someone pluck the beard of his favorite prophet.”

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Paul Karl Feyerabend buch Erkenntnis für freie Menschen

Paul Karl Feyerabend Science in a Free Society (1978), pg. 150.
Science in a Free Society (1978)

“The existence of antagonistic "conspiracies" was recognized by the defenders of religious and political views. Iconoclasts knew that images might distort the basic message of their creed (which consisted of words and resided in Holy Books). Church architecture and church music were adapted to the needs of the Holy Faith. Alternative styles were either fought or made part of religious PR. I conclude that our 'field of experience' is molded, overlaid, and 'conspired' against not just by language, but by numerous other patterns and institutions, many of them in mutual conflict. An inference from a style, a particular linguistic apparatus, or, more recently, from scientific beliefs, to a cosmology, corresponding ways of life and an all-embracing "spirit of the age therefore needs special support; it cannot be made as a matter of course.”

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pg 28.
Conquest of Abundance (2001 [posthumous])

“Arguments hardly affect the faithful- their beliefs have an entirely different foundation.”

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pg 212.
Conquest of Abundance (2001 [posthumous])

“There is no "scientific worldview" just as there is no uniform enterprise "science"- except in the minds of metaphysicians, school masters, and scientists blinded by the achievements of their own particular niche… There is no objective principle that could direct us away from the supermarket "religion" or the supermarket "art" toward the more modern, and much more expensive supermarket "science." Besides, the search for such guidance would be in conflict with the idea of individual responsibility which allegedly is an important ingredient of a "rational" or scientific age.”

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Pg 159.
Conquest of Abundance (2001 [posthumous])

“The material which a scientist actually has at his disposal, his laws, his experimental results, his mathematical techniques, his epistemological prejudices, his attitude towards the absurd consequences of the theories which he accepts, is indeterminate in many ways, ambiguous, and never fully separated from the historical background. This material is always contaminated by principles which he does not know and which, if known, would be extremely hard to test.”

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Paul Karl Feyerabend buch Wider den Methodenzwang

Pg. 66.
Against Method (1975)

“The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious institution.”

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Quelle: Against Method (1975), p. 295

“A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction, he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor not only of laws, theories, pictures, plays, forms of music, ways of dealing with his fellow man, institutions, but also entire world view, he is the inventor of entire forms of like.”

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Paul Karl Feyerabend buch Erkenntnis für freie Menschen

pg 38, italics are feyerabends.
Science in a Free Society (1978)

“The purpose of education, so one would think, is to introduce the young into life, and that means: into the society where they are born and into the physical universe that surrounds the society. The method of education often consists in the teaching of some basic myth. The myth is available in various versions. More advanced versions may be taught by initiation rites which firmly implant them into the mind. Knowing the myth, the grown-up can explain almost everything (or else he can turn to experts for more detailed information). He is the master of Nature and of Society. He understands them both and he knows how to interact with them. However, he is not the master of the myth that guides his understanding.”

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How To Defend Society Against Science (1975)

“The members of the Japanese enlightenment of the early 1870's, Fukuzawa among them, now reasoned as follows: Japan can keep its independence only if it becomes stronger. It can become stronger only with the help of science. It will use science effectively only if it does not just practice science but also believes in the underlying ideology. To many traditional Japanese this ideology-the scientific worldview- was barbaric. But, so the followers of Fukuzawa argued, it was necessary to adopt barbaric ways, to regard them as advanced, to introduce the whole of Western civilization in order to survive. Having been thus prepared, Japanese scientists soon branched out as their Western colleagues had done before and falsified the uniform ideology that had started the development. The lesson I draw from this sequence of events is that a uniform 'scientific view of the world' may be useful for people doing science… However, it is a disaster for outsiders(philosophers, fly-by-night mystics, prophets of a new age, the (educated public"), who, being undisturbed by the complexities of research, are liable to fall for the most simpleminded and most vapid tale.”

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pg 160.
Conquest of Abundance (2001 [posthumous])

“So far Unitarian realism claiming to possess positive knowledge about Ultimate Reality has succeeded only by excluding large areas of phenomena or by declaring, without proof, that they could be reduced to basic theory, which, in this connection, means elementary particle physics.”

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pg 215
Conquest of Abundance (2001 [posthumous])

“In a war a totalitarian state has a free hand.”

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Paul Karl Feyerabend buch Erkenntnis für freie Menschen

Quelle: Science in a Free Society (1978), p. 87.

“The material which a scientist actually has at his disposal, his laws, his experimental results, his mathematical techniques, his epistemological prejudices, his attitude towards the absurd consequences of the theories which he accepts, is indeterminate in many ways, ambiguous, and never fully separated from the historical background.”

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Paul Karl Feyerabend buch Wider den Methodenzwang

This material is always contaminated by principles which he does not know and which, if known, would be extremely hard to test.
Pg. 66.
Against Method (1975)

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