Maß und Messung

Abstract

The text tackles theproblemof tracingback the constitutionofnature and society to the technique of measure and measurement. The conditions of nature and our own capitalistic society can only be made into an object of objective knowledgebecause theyarebeingheld at their “own”measures anddeterminedby values; in case of nature at specific quantities, in case of society at money as the measure of value. The object is given to our mind in a certain manner by these identified values so that, along with the determination of the object, a corresponding mode of perception is being provoked that operates with non-empirical and quantifying termsanddefinitions. First itwill be shownhownature–or society–“releases” themeasures for their ownmeasurement and how the process ofmeasuring produces a first and a second nature. Subsequently it is explained how the values of the first nature are transposed into the second. DOI 10.1515/zksp-2014-0005 ZKSP 2014; 1(1): 109–147