Angèle Kremer-Marietti

Angèle Kremer-Marietti is a French philosopher. She gives her attention to the epistemological origin as a problem relative to any symbolicity, whether related to action or to knowledge. She sees to emphasize the "law which institutes time", the paramount element of temporal and concrete moral and political action as much as of scientific thought.

Angèle Kremer-Marietti has taken both an ethical as well as an epistemological point of view. She sees that Christian ethics predetermined a design of our finite/infinite time, which determined itself our traditional knowledge, and that the problem of symbolization has turned into a problem of authorization. Nevertheless, through the historical development, it has been shown that the problem of symbolization could be legitimated through a rational and a social recognition, but with a reference to the interior "formal law" as the fundamental structure, even though it would be without the help of the metaphysical being as being. Whereas purely normative morals became "out of shot", in a way marked with an historical seal, however every ethics implies henceforth the reference to conceptual philosophical systems, connecting the anthropological aspect with the rational one, as much as a form of empiricism with the basis of intuitionism.

Angèle Kremer-Marietti, in the essay, "Theory of philosophy as a science of the symbolic" (Argumentation 4, 1990) tries to put the foundations of a theory of reasoning on the ground of philosophy as philosophy with the question: what are the presupposed terms of the philosophical research, and what are they meaning ? With the intention to separate words from their evident meaning and to receive them as simple symbolic items, she thinks that symbolization is the most important way of proceeding in philosophy and science. Philosophers are usually not aware of this symbolical process. Thus, the structure of knowing is presented as a way of symbolizing. This perspective is open in referring to the traditional problems. (Key Words: Reasoning - meaning - symbolization - knowledge - metaphilosophy)

Angèle Kremer-Marietti would like to denote our process of mind in perceiving and conceiving. For example, in the essay Les processus d'objet (European Journal for Semiotic Studies, vol.5, 1-2, 1993,) she explains a new conception of the object through three divisions.

  1. Referring to the object taken as an action from the starting point from which we say it has been done (in present, future ans past time): so that telling the object is an action concerning objects as actions.
  2. The problem of referring with its classical not sufficient solutions needs that one includes in it the fact that there do not exist established conditions for the identity of intentional objects, according de re and de dicto.
  3. Finally, in object process it intervenes a relation which prevails upon any ontology of being as being.

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