Metaphysics As A Science In Classical German Philosophy

Author : Robb Dunphy,Toby Lovat
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 396 pages
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Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000913682

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Metaphysics as a Science in Classical German Philosophy by Robb Dunphy,Toby Lovat Pdf

This volume is dedicated to questions about the nature and method of metaphysics in Classical German Philosophy. Its chapters offer original investigations into the metaphysical projects of many of the major figures in German philosophy between Wolff and Hegel. The period of Classical German Philosophy was an extraordinarily rich one in the history of philosophy, especially for metaphysics. It includes some of the highest achievements of early modern rationalism, Kant’s critical revolution, and the various significant works of German Idealism that followed in Kant’s wake. The contributions to this volume critically examine certain common themes among metaphysical projects across this period, for example, the demand that metaphysics amount to a science, that it should be presented in the form of a system, or that it should proceed by means of demonstration from certain key first principles. This volume also includes material on influential criticisms of metaphysical projects of this kind. Metaphysics as a Science in Classical German Philosophy is a useful resource for contemporary metaphysicians and historians of philosophy interested in engaging with the history of the methodology and epistemology of metaphysics.

Author : Luca Corti,Johannes-Georg Schülein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000643985

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Nature and Naturalism in Classical German Philosophy by Luca Corti,Johannes-Georg Schülein Pdf

This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of the relevance of naturalism and theories of nature in Classical German Philosophy. It presents new readings from internationally renowned scholars on Kant, Jacobi, Goethe, the Romantic tradition, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, and Marx that highlight the significance of conceptions of nature and naturalism in Classical German Philosophy for contemporary concerns. The collection presents an inclusive view: it goes beyond the usual restricted focus on single thinkers to encompass the tradition as a whole, prompting dialogue among scholars interested in different authors and areas. It thus illuminates the post-Kantian tradition in a new, wider sense. The chapters also mobilize a productive perspective at the intersection of philosophy and history by combining careful textual and historical analysis with argument-based philosophizing. Overall, the book challenges the stereotypical view that Classical German Philosophy offers at best only an idealistic, one-sided, anachronistic, and theological view of nature. It invites readers to put traditional views in dialogue with current discussions of nature and naturalism. Nature and Naturalism in Classical German Philosophy will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Classical German Philosophy, 19th-Century Philosophy, and contemporary perspectives on naturalism.

Author : David E. Klemm,Günter Zöller
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997-02-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791432009

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Figuring the Self by David E. Klemm,Günter Zöller Pdf

Provides a systematic overview of the topic of self in classical German philosophy, focusing on the period around 1800 and covering Kant, Fichte, Holderlin, Novalis, Schelling, Schleiermacher, and Hegel.

Author : Manja Kisner,Jörg Noller
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3030841626

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The Concept of Drive in Classical German Philosophy by Manja Kisner,Jörg Noller Pdf

This volume gathers a collection of fourteen original articles discussing the concept of drive in classical German philosophy. Its aim is to offer a comprehensive historical overview of the concept of drive at the turn of the 19th century and to discuss it both historically and systematically. From the 18th century onward, the concept of drive started to play an important role in emerging disciplines such as biology, anthropology, and psychology. In these fields, the concept of drive was used to describe the inner forces of organic nature, or, more particularly, human urges and desires. But it was in the period of classical German philosophy that this concept developed into an important philosophical concept crucial to Kant’s and post-Kantian idealistic systems. Reflecting the complexity of this concept, the volume first discusses historical sources of drive theories in Leibniz, Reimarus, and Blumenbach. Afterwards, the volume presents the philosophical accounts of drives in Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, and also gives a systematic overview of other important drive theories that were formed around 1800 by Herder, Goethe, Jacobi, Novalis, Reinhold, Schiller, and Schopenhauer.

Author : R.S. Woolhouse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400929975

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Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by R.S. Woolhouse Pdf

The essays in this collection have been written for Gerd Buchdahl, by colleagues, students and friends, and are self-standing pieces of original research which have as their main concern the metaphysics and philosophy of science of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They focus on issues about the development of philosophical and scientific thought which are raised by or in the work of such as Bernoulli, Descartes, Galileo, Kant, Leibniz, Maclaurin, Priestly, Schelling, Vico. Apart from the initial bio-bibliographical piece and those by Robert Butts and Michael Power, they do not discuss Buchdahl or his ideas in any systematic, lengthy, or detailed way. But they are collected under a title which alludes to the book, Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science: The Classical Origins, Descartes to Kant (1969), which is central in the corpus of his work, and deal with the period and some of the topics with which that book deals.

Author : Gerd Buchdahl
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : WISC:89033910472

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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science by Gerd Buchdahl Pdf

Author : Luca Corti,Johannes-Georg Schülein
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031415586

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Life, Organisms, and Human Nature by Luca Corti,Johannes-Georg Schülein Pdf

This collection of essays investigates the notions of life, living organisms, and human nature in Classical German Philosophy from a historical and conceptual perspective. Its 19 chapters move from the peculiarities of organic life to the peculiarities of the distinctly human life form and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of naturalistic accounts of life. In light of the growing interest in nature within current philosophical debates, the book provides an overview of what the philosophical epoch of Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Humboldt, the Romantics, Hegel, and others can contribute to our understanding of life today. The collection of essays represents a plurality of approaches that reflects the pluralism of the tradition itself – highlighting the liveliness and polyphonic nature of the issues at stake and the ways in which they were approached in post-Kantian thought.In combining historical and philosophical investigation, the collection constitutes a unique resource for scholars and graduate students working in various areas related to the study of nature in philosophy, contemporary theories of science, and the humanities more generally.

Author : Miklós Vassányi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789048187966

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Anima Mundi: The Rise of the World Soul Theory in Modern German Philosophy by Miklós Vassányi Pdf

This work presents and philosophically analyzes the early modern and modern history of the theory concerning the soul of the world, anima mundi. The initial question of the investigation is why there was a revival of this theory in the time of the early German Romanticism, whereas the concept of the anima mundi had been rejected in the earlier, classical period of European philosophy (early and mature Enlightenment). The presentation and analysis starts from the Leibnizian-Wolffian school, generally hostile to the theory, and covers classical eighteenth-century physico-theology, also reluctant to accept an anima mundi. Next, it discusses early modern and modern Christian philosophical Cabbala (Böhme and Ötinger), an intellectual tradition which to some extent tolerated the idea of a soul of the world. The philosophical relationship between Spinoza and Spinozism on the one hand, and the anima mundi theory on the other is also examined. An analysis of Giordano Bruno’s utilization of the concept anima del mondo is the last step before we give an account of how and why German Romanticism, especially Baader and Schelling asserted and applied the theory of the Weltseele. The purpose of the work is to prove that the philosophical insufficiency of a concept of God as an ens extramundanum instigated the Romantics to think an anima mundi that can act as a divine and quasi-infinite intermediary between God and Nature, as a locum tenens of God in physical reality.

Author : Karin de Boer,Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429884795

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The Experiential Turn in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy by Karin de Boer,Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet Pdf

This collection of essays challenges the prevailing assumption that eighteenth-century German philosophy prior to Kant was largely defined by post-Leibnizian rationalism and, accordingly, a low esteem of the cognitive function of the senses. It does so by highlighting the various ways in which eighteenth-century German philosophers reconceived the notion and role of experience in their efforts to identify, defend, and contest the contribution of sensibility to disciplines such as metaphysics, theology, the natural sciences, psychology, and aesthetics. Engaging in depth with Tschirnhaus, Wolff, the Wolffians, eclecticism, Popularphilosophie, the Berlin Academy, Tetens, and Kant, its thirteen chapters present a more nuanced understanding of the German reception of British and French ideas and dismiss the prevailing view that German philosophy was largely isolated from European debates. Moreover, the book introduces a number of relatively unknown, but highly relevant philosophers and developments to non-specialized scholars and contributes to a better understanding of the richness and complexity of the German Enlightenment.

Author : Dieter Henrich
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674038585

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Between Kant and Hegel by Dieter Henrich Pdf

Electrifying when first delivered in 1973, legendary in the years since, Dieter Henrich's lectures on German Idealism were the first contact a major German philosopher had made with an American audience since the onset of World War II. They remain one of the most eloquent explanations and interpretations of classical German philosophy and of the way it relates to the concerns of contemporary philosophy. Thanks to the editorial work of David Pacini, the lectures appear here with annotations linking them to editions of the masterworks of German philosophy as they are now available. Henrich describes the movement that led from Kant to Hegel, beginning with an interpretation of the structure and tensions of Kant's system. He locates the Kantian movement and revival of Spinoza, as sketched by F. H. Jacobi, in the intellectual conditions of the time and in the philosophical motivations of modern thought. Providing extensive analysis of the various versions of Fichte's Science of Knowledge, Henrich brings into view a constellation of problems that illuminate the accomplishments of the founders of Romanticism, Novalis and Friedrich Schlegel, and of the poet Hölderlin's original philosophy. He concludes with an interpretation of the basic design of Hegel's system.

Author : Gerd Buchdahl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:251867410

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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science by Gerd Buchdahl Pdf

Author : Friedrich Engels,Karl Marx
Publisher : International Publishers Co
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0717801209

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Ludwig Feuerbach & the Outcome of Classical German Philosophy by Friedrich Engels,Karl Marx Pdf

On the philosophy of Hegel and Feuerbach, and the essence and tasks of philosophy.

Author : Gunter Zoller
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789629966454

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Res Publica by Gunter Zoller Pdf

In Res Publica, Gunter Zoller offers a concise and perceptive analysis of the influence that Plato's Republic had on the political thought of three leading German philosophers rarely discussed together- Kant, Hegel and Fichte. He investigates how these three thinkers engaged with one of the founding texts of Western political philosophy to offer their particular interpretations of the forms and norms of the political organization known as the "mmonwealth" or res publica. Professor Zoller contextualizes the encounter between an ancient thinker and his modern descendants to demonstrate how the ongoing dialogue between ancient republican thought and 19thcentury German Idealism extends to the modern era.

Author : Karl Ameriks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : First philosophy
ISBN : 311019242X

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Metaphysics in German idealism by Karl Ameriks Pdf

Kant's critical philosophy marks the end of a two-thousand year tradition of metaphysics. Against this older tradition, Kant proposes a new metaphysics of knowledge and human freedom with the autonomy of the subject as its principle. Led by the principle of subjectivity, it attempts to obtain a unified understanding of the whole world organized into a system of reason. In this way, the idea of classical metaphysics receives a new controversial interpretation still discussed today. In twelve contributions, the fifth volume of the Yearbook pursues the different forms of grounding metaphysics after Kant.

Author : Friedrich Engels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Dialectical materialism
ISBN : UCD:31175001555195

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Ludwig Feuerbach and the Outcome of Classical German Philosophy by Friedrich Engels Pdf