Pojam »Metafizike spoznaje« Nicolaia Hartmanna

Metaphysics of knowledge is u unique name for Hartmanns epistemology. According to it, there is a basic difference between ontological and epistemological considerations. Using knowledge at the epistemic level only, epistemology generates problems that cannot be solved by means of its own methodology. The ones that rest on ontological considerations are irreducible, they belong to the very nature of things, or to the structure of mind. Hartmann calls them »metaphysical problems«. To solve the difference between ontological and epistemological judgements, describing existence of phenomena, we have to take a certain standpoint. He calls it »metaphysics of standpoint«. That is precisely what he would like to avoid. For when we do so, we take metaphysical (metaphenomenological) assumptions, illegitnimate from the phenomenological point of view. According to him, minimum of assumptions makes a maximum of metaphysics, valid for a narrow field of phenomena only, and the other way around. The prior emphasis of his »metaphysics of knowledge« is an approval of maximum of phenomena, no matter whether they can be explained or not. That is why he names his epistemology an »outline« for a broader ontological concern. The question is to be raised, nevertheless, whether the paradoxies we delt with, on the epistemological grounds, can be solved simply by taking an ontological standpoint, or does this switch of attitude at the same time produce a »maximum of methaphysics«.