German Idealism As Constructivism

Author : Tom Rockmore
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 214 pages
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Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226350073

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German Idealism as Constructivism is the culmination of many years of research by distinguished philosopher Tom Rockmore—it is his definitive statement on the debate about German idealism between proponents of representationalism and those of constructivism that still plagues our grasp of the history of German idealism and the whole epistemological project today. Rockmore argues that German idealism—which includes iconic thinkers such as Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel—can best be understood as a constructivist project, one that asserts that we cannot know the mind-independent world as it is but only our own mental construction of it. Since ancient Greece philosophers have tried to know the world in itself, an effort that Kant believed had failed. His alternative strategy—which came to be known as the Copernican revolution—was that the world as we experience and know it depends on the mind. Rockmore shows that this project was central to Kant’s critical philosophy and the later German idealists who would follow him. He traces the different ways philosophers like Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel formulated their own versions of constructivism. Offering a sweeping but deeply attuned analysis of a crucial part of the legacy of German idealism, Rockmore reinvigorates this school of philosophy and opens up promising new avenues for its study.

Author : Tom Rockmore
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226349909

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German Idealism as Constructivism by Tom Rockmore Pdf

The culmination and distillation of distinguished philosopher Tom Rockmore's researches over some forty years, this book is his definitive statement on the debate between representationalism and constructivism that plagues both the history of German Idealism and the whole epistemological project today. Rockmore contends against prevailing opinion that Kant himself is an idealist and that his idealism centers on the Copernican revolution or a constructivist approach to knowledge. He shows that despite what Kant says in the first Critique he is not and cannot be a representationalist, and that the so-called double aspect thesis also fails. Positioning Kant as responding to Plato, he reads Plato as in turn responding to Parmenides. In Rockmore's view the Parmenidean intervention has two singularly important consequences: it focuses attention, running throughout the entire tradition, on the grasp of the mind-independent world--metaphysical realism--and it points toward the criterion of knowledge as the identity of identity and difference, a thesis that becomes explicit in Hegel. Rockmore examines the constructivist dimensions of the views of Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel in detail, pointing out that Fichte's effort to reformulate constructivism while intended to solve a residual difficulty in Kant's version of constructivism actually undermines the claim for objective cognition. Moreover Schelling's view of the parallel between transcendental philosophy and philosophy of nature, which is influenced by Spinoza, is based on a different kind of identity and it follows that Schelling does not later leave German idealism behind since in a deep sense he was never a German idealist. The book concludes with a short discussion of cognitive constructivism arguing that it remains viable at the present time as an alternative to metaphysical realism, while preserving the other Parmenidean suggestion, the identity of identity and difference.

Author : James Gledhill,Sebastian Stein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351205535

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Hegel and Contemporary Practical Philosophy by James Gledhill,Sebastian Stein Pdf

While Kantian constructivism has become one of the most influential and systematic schools of thought in analytic moral and political philosophy, Hegelian approaches to practical normativity hold out the promise of building upon Kantian insights into individual self-determination while avoiding their dualistic tendencies. James Gledhill and Sebastian Stein unite distinguished scholars of German idealism and contemporary Anglophone practical philosophy with rising stars in the field, to explore whether Hegelian idealist philosophy can offer the categories that analytic practical philosophy requires to overcome the contradictions that have so far plagued Kantian constructivism. The volume organizes the contributions into three parts. The first of these engages debates in metaethics regarding the relationship between realism and constructivism. The second part sees contributors draw on debates about the nature of political normativity, focusing primarily on the problems of historical contextualism, relativism, and critical reflection. The concluding part considers the application of the Hegelian framework to contemporary debates about specific ethical issues, including multiculturalism, democracy, and human rights. Hegel and Contemporary Practical Philosophy contributes to the on-going debate about the importance of systematic philosophy in the context of practical philosophy, engages with contemporary discussions about the shape of a rational social order, and gauges the timeliness of Hegelian philosophy. This book is a must read for scholars interested in Hegel and in the contemporary tradition of Kantian constructivism in moral and political philosophy.

Author : Tom Rockmore
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226795423

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After Parmenides by Tom Rockmore Pdf

"In After Parmenides, Tom Rockmore takes us all the way back to the beginning of philosophy. Parmenides held that thought and being are one: what we know is what is. For Rockmore, this established both the good view that we should think of the world in terms of what the mind constructs as knowable entities as well as the bad view that there is some non-mind-dependent "thing"-the world, the real-which we can know or fail to know. No, Rockmore says: what we need to do is give up on the idea that there is any extra-mental "real" for us to know. We know and become acquainted with the objects of cognition that our mind constructs. After Parmenides illustrates the contest between variants of the "standard" view and variants of the "non-standard, constructivist view" in the history of philosophy, from Plato and Aristotle to Descartes and Locke, Leibniz, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, post-Kantians including Fichte, Hegel, and Schopenhauer, Marx, the early pragmatists, analytic philosophy, contemporary French speculative realism, and more. This ambitious but accessibly written book shows how new connections can be made in the history of philosophy when it is reread through a new lens"--

Author : Italo Testa,Luigi Ruggiu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004322967

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"I that is We, We that is I." Perspectives on Contemporary Hegel by Italo Testa,Luigi Ruggiu Pdf

In "I that is We, We that is I" leading scholars analyze the many facets of Hegel’s formula for the intersubjective structure of human life and explores its relevance for debates on social ontology, recognition, action theory, constructivism, and naturalism.

Author : Christopher Yeomans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780197667309

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The Politics of German Idealism by Christopher Yeomans Pdf

The Politics of German Idealism reconstructs the political philosophies of Kant, Fichte and Hegel against the background of their social-historical context. Christopher Yeomans' guiding thought is to understand German Idealist political philosophy as political, i.e., as a set of policy options and institutional designs aimed at a broadly but distinctively German set of social problems. 'Political' here refers to use of the state's power to enforce law, and 'social' to the norms and groups which are regulated by that enforcement, but which also antedate or exceed that enforcement. Because the power to enforce law is very much still being actualized by state-building in the period at issue, 'political' refers quite narrowly to a certain kind of practical legal project rather than to a perennial set of problems from the history of philosophy. By way of method, Yeomans claims that to reveal the political nature of German Idealist political philosophy requires understanding German Idealism as both taking place in and conceptualizing its own historical present--this is the sense in which it is not only political, but political philosophy. The most important general feature of the historical present of the German Idealists is the way in which the period from 1770 to 1830 was a transitional period between early and late modernity, a so-called saddle period (Sattelzeit) in which the metaphor is of a Bergsattel or shallow valley between two mountain peaks.

Author : Tom Rockmore
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300134735

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Kant and Idealism by Tom Rockmore Pdf

This much-needed book examines one of the great lacunae of contemporary philosophical discussion - idealism. Addressing the widespread confusion about the meaning and use of the term, Tom Rockmore surveys and classifies some of its major forms. He argues that Kant provides the essential link between three main types of idealism associated with Plato, the new way of ideas, and German idealism. The author also makes a case for the contemporary relevance of at least one strand in the tangled idealist web, a strand most clearly identified with Kant. In terms of the philosophical tradition, Rockmore contends, constructivism offers a lively, interesting, and important approach to knowledge after the decline of metaphysical realism.

Author : Klaus Brinkmann (filozofia)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415344174

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German Idealism by Klaus Brinkmann (filozofia) Pdf

Author : Klaus Brinkmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:874676028

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German Idealism by Klaus Brinkmann Pdf

Author : Klaus Brinkmann (filozofia)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415344190

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German idealism by Klaus Brinkmann (filozofia) Pdf

Author : Markus Gabriel,Anders Moe Rasmussen
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3110500280

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German Idealism Today by Markus Gabriel,Anders Moe Rasmussen Pdf

In recent years, German Idealism has seen an astonishing revival in nearly every area under debate in current philosophy. The growing interest reflects the innovative potential in Kant's, Fichte's, Schelling's and Hegel's classical works. It takes i

Author : Tom Rockmore
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226817859

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Kant and Phenomenology by Tom Rockmore Pdf

Kant and Phenomenology traces the formulation of Kant's phenomenological approach back to the second edition of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. In response to various criticisms of the first edition, Kant more forcefully put forth a constructivist theory of knowledge. This shift in Kant's thinking challenged the representational approach to epistemology, and it is this turn, Rockmore contends, that makes Kant the first great phenomenologist. He then follows and evaluates the epistemological usefulness of this phenomenological line through the work of Kant's idealist successors, Fichte and Hegel, and through the work of his phenomenological successors, Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. Steeped in the sources and literature it examines, Kant and Phenomenology persuasively reshapes our conception of both of its main subjects. --Page [4] of cover.

Author : Espen Hammer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415373042

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German Idealism by Espen Hammer Pdf

This outstanding collection of specially commissioned articles examines the historical and philosophical aspects of German idealism and assesses the renewed interest in idealism across a wide number of fields.

Author : Federico Sanguinetti,André J. Abath
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319988962

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McDowell and Hegel by Federico Sanguinetti,André J. Abath Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive and detailed exploration of the relationship between the thought of G.W.F. Hegel and that of John McDowell, the latter of whom is widely considered to be one of the most influential living analytic philosophers. It serves as a point of entry in McDowell’s and Hegel’s philosophy, and a substantial contribution to ongoing debates on perceptual experience and perceptual justification, naturalism, human freedom and action. The chapters gathered in this volume, as well as McDowell’s responses, make it clear that McDowell’s work paves the way for an original reading of Hegel’s texts. His conceptual framework allows for new interpretive possibilities in Hegel’s philosophy which, until now, have remained largely unexplored. Moreover, these interpretations shed light on various aspects of continuity and discontinuity between the philosophies of these two authors, thus defining more clearly their positions on specific issues. In addition, they allow us to see Hegel’s thought as containing a number of conceptual tools that might be useful for advancing McDowell’s own philosophy and contemporary philosophy in general.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004503243

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Karel Kosík and the Dialectics of the Concrete by Anonim Pdf

The eighteen articles in this book present fresh looks at the meaning of politics, praxis, labour, dialectics and modernity in the work of Czech philosopher Karel Kosík, best known for his book Dialectics of the Concrete.