Hegel S Antiquity

Author : Will D. Desmond
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 404 pages
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Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198839064

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Hegel's Antiquity by Will D. Desmond Pdf

Hegel's Antiquity aims to summarize, contextualize, and criticize Hegel's understanding and treatment of major aspects of the classical world, approaching each of the major areas of his historical thinking in turn: politics, art, religion, philosophy, and history itself. The discussion excerpts relevant details from a range of Hegel's works, with an eye both to the ancient sources with which he worked, and the contemporary theories (German aesthetic theory, Romanticism, Kantianism, Idealism (including Hegel's own), and emerging historicism) which coloured his readings. What emerges is that Hegel's interest in both Greek and Roman antiquity was profound and is essential for his philosophy, arguably providing the most important components of his vision of world-history: Hegel is generally understood as a thinker of modernity (in various senses), but his modernity can only be understood in essential relation to its predecessors and 'others', notably the Greek world and Roman world whose essential 'spirit' he assimilates to his own notion of Geist.

Author : Will D. Desmond
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192575739

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Hegel's Antiquity by Will D. Desmond Pdf

Hegel's Antiquity aims to summarize, contextualize, and criticize Hegel's understanding and treatment of major aspects of the classical world, approaching each of the major areas of his historical thinking in turn: politics, art, religion, philosophy, and history itself. The discussion excerpts relevant details from a range of Hegel's works, with an eye both to the ancient sources with which he worked, and the contemporary theories (German aesthetic theory, Romanticism, Kantianism, Idealism (including Hegel's own), and emerging historicism) which coloured his readings. What emerges is that Hegel's interest in both Greek and Roman antiquity was profound and is essential for his philosophy, arguably providing the most important components of his vision of world-history: Hegel is generally understood as a thinker of modernity (in various senses), but his modernity can only be understood in essential relation to its predecessors and 'others', notably the Greek world and Roman world whose essential 'spirit' he assimilates to his own notion of Geist.

Author : Georg W. F. Hegel
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781602064379

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The Philosophy of History by Georg W. F. Hegel Pdf

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Spirit, and in the History of the World regard everything as only its manifestation, we have, in traversing the past? however extensive its periods'only to do with what is present; for philosophy, as occupying itself with the True, has to do with the eternally fresenL Nothing in the past is lost for it, for the Idea is ever present; Spirit is immortal; with it there is no past, no future, but an essential now. This necessarily implies that the present form of Spirit comprehends within it all earlier steps. These have indeed unfolded themselves in succession independently; but what Spirit is it has always been essentially; distinctions are only the development of this essential nature. The life of the ever present Spirit is a circle of progressive embodiments, which looked at in one aspect still exist beside each other, and only as looked at from another point of view appear as past. The grades which Spirit seems to have left behind it, it still possesses in the depths of its present. GEOGRAPHICAL BASIS OF HISTORY Contrasted with the universality of the moral Whole and with the unity of that individuality which is its active principle, the natural connecticm that helps to produce the Spirit of a People, appears an extrinsic element; but inasmuch as we must regard it as the ground on which that Spirit plays its part, it is an essential and necessary basis. We began with the assertion that, in the History of the World, the Idea of Spirit appears in its actual embodiment as a series of external forms, each one of which declares itself as an actually existing people. This existence falls under the category of Time as well as Space, in the way of natural existence; and the special principle, which every world-historical people embodies, has this principle at the same time as a nat...

Author : P. Vassilopoulou,S. Clark
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230240773

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Late Antique Epistemology by P. Vassilopoulou,S. Clark Pdf

Late Antique Epistemology explores the techniques used by late antique philosophers to discuss truth. Non-rational ways to discover truth, or to reform the soul, have usually been thought inferior to the philosophically approved techniques of rational argument, suitable for the less philosophically inclined, for children, savages or the uneducated. Religious rituals, oracles, erotic passion, madness may all have served to waken courage or remind us of realities obscured by everyday concerns. What is unusual in the late antique classical philosophers is that these techniques were reckoned as reliable as reasoned argument, or better still. Late twentieth century commentators have offered psychological explanations of this turn, but only recently had it been accepted that there might also have been philosophical explanations, and that the later antique philosophers were not necessarily deluded.

Author : Glenn Alexander Magee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
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Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351602426

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Hegel and Ancient Philosophy by Glenn Alexander Magee Pdf

Hegel’s debts to ancient philosophy are widely acknowledged by scholars, and by the philosopher himself. Roughly half of his Lectures on the History of Philosophy is devoted to ancient philosophy, and throughout his work Hegel frequently frames his positions in relation to the thinkers and movements of antiquity. This volume presents original essays from leading scholars dealing with Hegel’s debts to ancient thinkers, as well as his own, often problematic readings of ancient philosophy. While around half of the chapters discuss Hegel’s treatment of Aristotle—a topic that has long been at the forefront of scholarship—the other half explore his relationship to such ancient figures as Xenophanes, Anaxagoras, Socrates, Plato, Sextus Empiricus, and the Stoics. The essays challenge a number of longstanding scholarly assumptions regarding, for example, Hegel’s denigration of the "mythical," his developmentalist approach to ancient thought, his conception of the state in relation to the Greek polis, his "hermeneutic" of the Platonic dialogues, and his use of Aristotelian concepts in arguments concerning the psyche, the body, and their unity and distinction.​

Author : Jean de Climont
Publisher : Editions d Assailly
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9782902425402

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The Existence of Time by Jean de Climont Pdf

This essay is an history of time theories since the Antiquity.

Author : Ludwig Feuerbach
Publisher : Newcomb Livraria Press
Page : 20 pages
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Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Theogonie from the Sources of Classical, Hebrew and Christian Antiquity by Ludwig Feuerbach Pdf

A New 2023 translation into English from the original manuscript, with an introduction, glossary of Feuerbachian terminology and a timeline of his life and works. "Theogonie" is one of Feuerback's core works published in 1857 that explores the origins and nature of religious belief, particularly in relation to ancient Greek mythology. It is titled after The epic poem by Hesiod of the same name. In this work, Feuerbach argues that the gods of Greek mythology are projections of human consciousness and that the true essence of religion can only be understood by examining the human mind and its relationship to the natural world. He extends this critique of religion to the modern day and uses it to argue against Hegelianism. Nietzsche copies this critique early in his career, making the same argument that religion merely is a defense mechanism, and morality merely a tool for the weak to restrict the strong. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche both took their satirical criticism about religion from Feuerbach, and every aspect of Marxism can be found here in Marx's favorite Philosopher. Feuerbach is a critical figure in the development of not merely Marxism, but Materialistic Humanism in general. Feuerbach is critical to understanding Marx.

Author : Vered Lev Kenaan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192562791

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The Ancient Unconscious by Vered Lev Kenaan Pdf

In the field of classical studies, the psychoanalytic construction of the unconscious is rarely regarded as a fruitful methodological concept. Commonly understood as a modern conceptual invention rather than the discovery of a psychic reality, the notion of the unconscious is often criticized as an anachronistic lens, one that ineluctably subjects ancient experience to modern patterns of thought. The Ancient Unconscious seeks to challenge this ambivalent theoretical disposition toward the psychoanalytic concept and reclaim the value of the unconscious as a methodological tool for the study of ancient texts by transforming our understanding of what the unconscious means, the way it operates, and how it relates to textual hermeneutics. It considers the debate over whether the ancients had an unconscious as an invitation to rethink the relationship between antiquity and modernity, investigating the meaning of textuality through contact between historical moments that have no priority under the law of chronology: associations and connections between the past and its future - including the present - belong to the sphere of the unconscious, which is primarily employed here in order to study the inherent, often hidden, links that bind modernity to classical antiquity and modern to ancient experiences. Drawing on an incisive examination of the complicated, often conflicted, relationship between classical studies and psychoanalytic theory, the volume aims to explain why the concept of the unconscious is in fact inseparable from, and crucial for, the study of the ancient text and, more generally, the methodology of classical philology.

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Great Books in Philosophy
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCSC:32106013019499

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Philosophy of Right by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Pdf

Among the most influential parts of the philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) were his ethics, his theory of the state, and his philosophy of history. The Philosophy of Right (Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts) (1821), the last work published in Hegel's lifetime, is a combined system of moral and political philosophy, or a sociology dominated by the idea of the state. Here Hegel repudiates his earlier assessment of the French Revolution as a "a marvelous sunrise" in the realization of liberty. Rejecting the republican form of government, he espouses an idealized form of a constitutional monarchy, whose ultimate power rests with the sovereign.

Author : Didier Maleuvre
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0804736049

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Museum Memories by Didier Maleuvre Pdf

The author shows how museum culture offers a unique vantage point on the 19th and 20th centuries' preoccupation with history and subjectivity, and demonstrates how the constitution of the aesthetic provides insight into the realms of technology, industrial culture, architecture, and ethics.

Author : Stephen Gersh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521198493

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Interpreting Proclus by Stephen Gersh Pdf

Stephen Gersch charts the influence of the late Greek philosopher Proclus from his own lifetime down to the Renaissance (500-1600 CE).

Author : Hegel Society of America
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0873958144

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History and System by Hegel Society of America Pdf

History and System represents the first contemporary volume on Hegel's philosophy of history to be published in English. The editor notes that "with the possible exceptions of Augustine and Vico, no philosopher before Hegel had such a deep sense of the mutual penetration of history and philosophy as did Hegel. Historical reflection influenced his reading of other philosophers and philosophical reason penetrated his views of past events and eras." Reflecting the best of Hegelian scholarship, the papers here focus on the sources of Hegel's philosophy of history, its internal structure and relation to other parts of his system, analyses of specific aspects of his philosophy of history, and its influence on subsequent thinkers. In its breadth and depth, the volume attests to the continued and growing importance of Hegel's thought for contemporary philosophy.

Author : Glenn Alexander Magee
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0801474507

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Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition by Glenn Alexander Magee Pdf

Glenn Alexander Magee's pathbreaking book argues that Hegel was decisively influenced by the Hermetic tradition, a body of thought with roots in Greco-Roman Egypt. Magee traces the influence on Hegel of such Hermetic thinkers as Baader, Böhme, Bruno, and Paracelsus, and fascination with occult and paranormal phenomena. Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition covers Hegel's philosophical corpus and shows that his engagement with Hermeticism lasted throughout his career and intensified during his final years in Berlin. Viewing Hegel as a Hermetic thinker has implications for a more complete understanding of the modern philosophical tradition, and German idealism in particular.

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000106054

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Hegel's First Principle by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Pdf

Author : Bruce Haddock
Publisher : Polity
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCSC:32106020000995

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A History of Political Thought by Bruce Haddock Pdf

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the history of political thought, tracing the development of arguments and controversies from ancient Greece, through different forms of community, state and empire, to today's global concerns. Bruce Haddock highlights the bewildering variety of contexts that have framed political thinking, yet also displays structural features that have proved to be remarkably stable over time. An important theme in the book is the need to see political philosophy, even in its most abstract formulations, as a response to historically contingent circumstances, without limiting its relevance to those circumstances. The emphasis throughout is on political thinking as a response to hard choices. Major thinkers covered include Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Grotius, Locke, Spinoza, Montesquieu, Hume, Kant, Rousseau, Burke, Hegel, Marx, Mill, Lenin, Schmitt, Nietzsche, Foucault, Oakeshott and Rawls. The book treats political philosophy and theory as a tentative engagement with a fractured and controversial past. Yet political thinking remains the exercise of a burden of a responsibility that is inescapable for us. Haddock introduces a history that continues to shape our understanding of ourselves as political and historical creatures. A History of Political Thought will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, history and philosophy.