On Critical Faith and Metacritical Agnosticism: Nietzsche, Socrates, and the Searches for Knowledge

摘要

This article articulates a case for methodological pluralism while addressing points of contention between Michael Warren Tumolo's "A Sublimed Experience of the Rhetoric of Plato's Republic" and John Peterman's "Sublimation Therapy: Helping Reason Get Back to a Solid Footing." This discussion addresses explicit and implicit differences regarding the meaning of knowledge, authorship, advice, texts, method, and discipline. Embedded in this larger framework is a discussion of Nietzschean and Socratic understandings of self-knowledge. This essay resists hierarchical approaches to discipline and method, instead arguing for methodological pluralism in which one aims to be critically faithful and metacritically agnostic This approach is offered as a way to demonstrate a commitment to disciplinary knowledge and to better know oneself.