Critical assessment of Masson – Oursel comparative method

Masson – Ourcel comparative method is based on context/reality. He considers philosophical thoughts as a reality and input which should be groomed, fertilized and evolved in a context to be paid attention. By this way, he highly emphasizes on the importance and role of context and a historic attitude toward thoughts. Being influenced by positivism, he insists on components such historiography, humanism and preventing the intervention of presumptions. According to him, human should be totally considered in comparative studies free from color, race and thinking types. Although one can challenge his comparative method in different perspectives such as the status of positivism opponents, in present paper, we only address opinions by toward meta-history and structuralists who have done their best to degrade western thinking duals like contxt/reality as well as Quentin Skinners’ opinions as a critic of Masson – Oursel’s comparative method.Masson – Ourcel comparative method is based on context/reality.