spekülasyon

• françoise dastur, seçtiği temalar açısından ilgiye değerdir. "tragedy and speculation" adlı makalesinin giriş bölümünden alınan ve spekülasyon gibi çok kritik bir felsefi terimi bütün açıklığı ile gösteren aydınlatıcı bir açıklama:
  
  "..but what does speculative - a word which will principally be used by hegel, as we know, but which is already to be found in kant - actually mean? this is the first point which needs to be clarified. the word speculatio comes, of course, from specto, to look at, to scrutinise, and was used by boetius to translate the greek theoria into latin. but in christian theology this meaning was forgotten, especially by thomas aquinas, who derives speculatio from speculum, mirror, and relates the word to what paul says in the first epistle to the corinthians (13. 12) concerning the vision of god whom we see now confusedly as ‘in a mirror’ but whom later, that is to say, after death, we will see “face to face”. speculatio means, therefore, partial and confused knowledge, as indirect and unclear as the image of oneself in the metal mirrors of these early times, and it is this meaning of the word that will be used by the german mystics. this explains kant’s tendency to give a pejorative turn to the word, which for him designates the mode of thinking of traditional metaphysics, whereas, for hegel, the same word, now taken in a positive manner, will regain its original sense of theoria without, however, losing its mystical connotation. thus speculation is connected with the visio dei, the vision of the supersensible, or with what kant calls ‘intellectual intuition’, an intuition which is refused to finite beings, which are only able to have ‘sensible intuition’, that is, an intuition of what is already given to them through their senses."