The “Communitary Life”, the “Common Sense”, the “Social Feeling” and the New Epistemologies

Editorial

Abstract

Both conscious and unconscious human behavior is urged by the desire to achieve ends, and this in the scientific sphere has always been considered an obstacle, as it is believed that only causes are currently ascertainable, while ends would remain in the subject's consciousness. The mechanistic conception of the nineteenth/nineteenth century actually heavily conditioned Freud's doctrine.

Finalism, holism and phenomenology would be developed, however, with heretical courage by Adler, who in 1911 would say, “Each of the vital manifestations is the place of convergence of the past, present and future, governed by a higher directing idea”