Criticism of Znaniecki's sociology and the decline of social inquiry

pp. 230-249

in: Z. Jordan, Philosophy and ideology, Berlin, Springer, 1963

Abstract

If Alexander the Great really cut the Gordian knot, observed Felix Kaufmann, this might have been the cause of the relations between Aristotle and his former pupil becoming strained in later years. For there is nothing less congenial to the scientific way of thought than to dispose of a theoretical difficulty by an arbitrary action instead of undertaking its solution by the accepted rules of procedure.