According to Logren, Hägerström’s lifetime achievement was his continual explication of the concept of reality.114 In Hägerström’s philosophy, the concept of reality centers upon logical determinateness, which establishes the ontological concept of being, and by which Hägerström refutes the ideas of subjectivism.115 Hägerström also applies the principle of logical determinateness when he later attacks the legal concept of will, which is a concept of law that he finds tainted with epistemological idealism.116 According to Logren’s analysis of Hägerström’s legal theory, the legal concept of will only appears to have an inner unity, while in fact it is devoid of logical unity and hence devoid of reality value.117 However, the end result of Hägerström’s use of the principle of logical determinateness is the destruction of value, duty, and the “self ” as well as idealism in their respective capacities of objective realities, leaving nothing but “practical nihilism” (Swedish: “den praktiska nihilismen”).118 What is of interest in Logren’s analysis of Till analysen … is that it establishes a connection between Hägerström’s epistemic research and his practical philosophy (and theory of values), of which the former gives the latter shape and content.119 Logren’s fault is that he construes Hägerström’s “practical nihilism” as a normative program,120 while Hägerström himself denies that the refutation of idealism necessarily entails a normative program of practical nihilism or leads to a dissolution of morality.121 In fact, p a r t i i i , c h a p t e r 3 206 3. 1. 1 the princi ple of real i ty: log ical dete rminatene s s 3. 1. 2 e p i stemology and pract ical phi losophy 114 Logren, Huvuddragen, p. 361. 115 Ibid., pp. 361-362. 116 Cf. ibid., p. 362. 117 Ibid. 118 Ibid. However, the practical consequences that Logren draws are invalid. 119 Ibid., p. 397. 120 Ibid., p. 362. 121 Inter alia Hägerström, Selbstdarstellungen, pp. 45-46.
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