| Sumario: | What has anarchy got to do with intercultural philosophy? In this essay I show how anarchist positions and theorems as they are developed within Paul Karl Feyerabend's (P. K. F.) philosophy can for one be understood as the fundamentals of every pluralistic or anti-transcendental philosophy and for another that they can be used as a motivational source for legitimizing the basis of intercultural philosophy. The latter consists inter alia of the critical analysis of one's own tradition's criteria for evaluating others resp. the critical analysis of the practice of insinuating values on groups who »think differently« as well as the systematically underrepresented use of common-sense thought. I demonstrate that P. K. F., an almost forgotten Austrian philosopher, manages to anti-systematically introduce a variety of different philosophical criticisms. These focus primarily on the often-unquestioned disconnection between scientific method and humanistic values. I show how P. K. F. establishes an anarchistic way of arguing for one's beliefs, without having to commit to certain logical consequences of one's propositions. Lastly, I elaborate three entwined solutions by P. K. F. concerning philosophical problems such as the anticipation of the possible, learning and unity resp. the problem of universal conditions for understanding others.
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