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Theoretical | Practical Axiotic

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When the pathic component, i.e., the stratum of valuing and the
correlative values that also always occur, predominates, then the practice
can be said to be axiotic^ an expression broader than "aesthetic." And
when the praxic component, i.e., the ever-present stratum of willing (in
the broad signification) and the correlative means- and end-uses in objects
as intended to, predominates, the practice can be said to be practical.
That the word "practice," which can also signify a phase of careful
preparation, and "practical" are cognate might help to counteract the
intellectualist tendency to focus on the cognitive foundations that are
indeed recognizable in every practice.^ The points here, however, are (a)
that there are pathic and praxic as well as doxic strata in all concrete
cultural practices and cultural characteristics correlatively in all of the
concrete cultural objects, situations, and worlds constituted in them, with
sometimes one and sometimes another predominating, and (b) that
cultural disciplines can be classified according to the positionality that
predominates in the practices in which they culminate.

a. Theoretical Cultural Disciplines.

Disciplines of the cognitive or theoretical sort can be called "cultural
sciences." The cultural sciences are not the only species of science, for
the formal and naturalistic sciences can of course also be recognized.^^ If

^ Phenomenological foundation, which is a relation between founding and
founded strata within a concrete intentive process, has, plainly, no relation to foun-
dationalism, which seems a matter of propositions and logic.
^^ Cf. Thomas Seebohm, Dagfinn F^llesdal, and J. N. Mohanty, edd.,
Phenomenology and the Formal Sciences (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
1991) and Lee Hardy and Lester Embree, (editors) Phenomenology of the Natural