Modes Of Knowledge And The Transcendental

Author : Henri Oosthout
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789060323199

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Modes of Knowledge and the Transcendental by Henri Oosthout Pdf

The philosophy of Plotinus is usually depicted as a quest for the absolute, outside and beyond the world of human knowledge and experience. Yet in the late treatise Ennead 5.3 [49], Plotinus shows himself a philosopher of the transcendental, rather than of the transcendent. Starting from a critical analysis of the idea of self-knowledge, he develops a world-view in which central notions of his metaphysics are represented, not as different “hypostases” or transcendent beings, but as limiting cases of reality as we human beings know it. Fundamental to this world-view is Plotinus' assumption that a close analogy can be established between the psychological and the physical description of man.

Author : Paul A Macdonald
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813215778

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Knowledge and the Transcendent by Paul A Macdonald Pdf

Knowledge and the Transcendent advances the provocative claim that the human mind is not "bounded" on the outside but actually remains "open" to the world and to God.

Author : Swami Satprakashananda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Advaita
ISBN : PSU:000013960094

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Methods of Knowledge, Perceptual, Non-perceptual, and Transcendental, According to Advaita Vedānta by Swami Satprakashananda Pdf

Author : P. Parrini
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401108348

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Kant and Contemporary Epistemology by P. Parrini Pdf

From the mid-1960s, after the important works by J. Hintikka, S. Körner, W. Sellars and P.F. Strawson, there has been a marked revival of Kantian epistemological thought. Against this background, featuring fruitful exchange between historical research and theoretical prospects, the main point of the book is the discussion of Kantian theory of scientific knowledge from the perspective of present-day analytical philosophy and philosophy of empirical and mathematical sciences. The main topics are the problem of a priori knowledge in logic, mathematics and physics, the distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments, the constitution of physical objectivity and the questions of realism and truth, the Kantian conception of time, causal laws and induction, the relations between Kantian epistemological thought, relativity theory, quantum theory and some recent developments of philosophy of science. The book is addressed to research workers, specialists and scholars in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of science and history of philosophy.

Author : Markus Gabriel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441127419

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Transcendental Ontology by Markus Gabriel Pdf

Transcendental Ontology in German Idealism: Schelling and Hegel sheds remarkable light on a question central to post-Kantian philosophy: after the Copernican Revolution in philosophy, what can philosophy say about the world or reality as such? What remains of ontology's task after Kant? This is a question often overlooked in contemporary scholarship on German Idealism. Markus Gabriel offers a refreshing reinvigoration of a range of questions concerning scepticism, corporeality, freedom, the question of being, the absolute and the modal status of our determinations and judgments, all crucial to our understanding of the truly radical nature of post-Kantian philosophy. Gabriel's assessment of the experiments undertaken in post-Kantian ontology reaffirms Schelling's and Hegel's place at the heart of contemporary metaphysics. The book shows how far we still have to go in mining the thought of Hegel and Schelling and how exciting, as a result, we can expect twenty-first century philosophy to be.

Author : F. Scott Scribner
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271074986

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Matters of Spirit by F. Scott Scribner Pdf

This book offers a radically new interpretation of the entire philosophy of J. G. Fichte by showing the impact of nineteenth-century psychological techniques and technologies on the formation of his theory of the imagination—the very centerpiece of his philosophical system. By situating Fichte’s philosophy within the context of nineteenth-century German science and culture, the book establishes a new genealogy, one that shows the extent to which German idealism’s transcendental account of the social remains dependent upon the scientific origins of psychoanalysis in the material techniques of Mesmerism. The book makes it clear that the rational, transcendental account of spirit, imagination, and the social has its source in the psychological phenomena of affective rapport. Specifically, the imagination undergoes a double displacement in which it is ultimately subject to external influence, the influence of a material technique, or, in short, a technology.

Author : TK Seung
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441175960

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Kant: A Guide for the Perplexed by TK Seung Pdf

Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to fathom, these books explain and explore key themes and ideas, guiding the reader towards a thorough understanding of demanding material. Immanuel Kant's influence and importance are difficult to exaggerate, his Three Critiques - of Pure Reason, of Practical Reason and of Judgment - standing as landmark works in the Western philosophical canon. Anyone interested in or studying philosophy will encounter Kant and hope to reach a detailed understanding of his work. Nevertheless, Kant is far from being an easy or straightforward subject for study. The ideas entailed in his work - and the connections between them - are complex, and the language in which they are expressed is frequently opaque. Kant: A Guide for the Perplexed is the ideal text for anyone finding it difficult to make headway with this key philosopher. It offers a detailed account of each of the three Critiques and the relationship between them. In so doing, it ranges over Kant's epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics and philosophy of religion, and explores his legacy for German Idealism. Valuably, the book provides a way through Kant's often impenetrable prose. Written with students in mind, and tailored to meet their specific needs, this is a reliable, authoritative and illuminating guide to one of the central pillars of modern philosophy.

Author : Wayne M. Martin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804730008

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Idealism and Objectivity by Wayne M. Martin Pdf

This new interpretation of Fichte's Jena system focuses on the problem of the objectivity of consciousness.

Author : Otto Muck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Neo-Scholasticism
ISBN : UCAL:B4372580

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The Transcendental Method by Otto Muck Pdf

Author : Sara Heinämaa,Mirja Hartimo,Timo Miettinen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135138790

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Phenomenology and the Transcendental by Sara Heinämaa,Mirja Hartimo,Timo Miettinen Pdf

The aim of this volume is to offer an updated account of the transcendental character of phenomenology. The main question concerns the sense and relevance of transcendental philosophy today: What can such philosophy contribute to contemporary inquiries and debates after the many reasoned attacks against its idealistic, aprioristic, absolutist and universalistic tendencies—voiced most vigorously by late 20th century postmodern thinkers—as well as attacks against its apparently circular arguments and suspicious metaphysics launched by many analytic philosophers? Contributors also aim to clarify the relations of transcendental phenomenology to other post-Kantian philosophies, most importantly to pragmatism and Wittgenstein’s philosophical investigations. Finally, the volume offers a set of reflections on the meaning of post-transcendental phenomenology.

Author : Steven Galt Crowell,Jeff Malpas
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804755116

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Transcendental Heidegger by Steven Galt Crowell,Jeff Malpas Pdf

The thirteen original essays in this volume represent the most sustained investigation, in any language, of the connections between Heidegger's thought—both early and late—and the tradition of transcendental philosophy.

Author : Ian Rory Owen
Publisher : Ian Rory Owen PhD
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780595417520

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Psychotherapy and Phenomenology by Ian Rory Owen Pdf

This book is a scholarly monograph on Sigmund Freud's understanding of the basics of psychotherapy theory and practice from the perspective of phenomenology. Two leading phenomenologists, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, are chosen to make an appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses of Freud's interpretation of talking and relating with others. Heidegger is then compared to Husserl to produce a position that keeps a focus on intentionality yet accepts the understanding offered by hermeneutics. This work is relevant to psychotherapists, philosophers and philosophically-interested human scientists who value qualitative approaches to meaning.

Author : David Scott
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781800080027

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On Learning by David Scott Pdf

This is a philosophical work that develops a general theory of ontological objects and object-relations. It does this by examining concepts as acquired dispositions, and then focuses on perhaps the most important of these: the concept of learning. This concept is important because everything that we know and do in the world is predicated on a prior act of learning. A concept can have many meanings and can be used in a number of different ways, and this creates difficulty when considering the nature of objects and the relationships between them. To enable this, David Scott answers a series of questions about concepts in general and the concept of learning in particular. Some of these questions are: What is learning? What different meanings can be given to the notion of learning? How does the concept of learning relate to other concepts, such as innatism, development and progression? The book offers a counter-argument to empiricist conceptions of learning, to the propagation of simple messages about learning, knowledge, curriculum and assessment, and to the denial that values are central to understanding how we live. It argues that values permeate everything: our descriptions of the world, the attempts we make at creating better futures and our relations with other people.

Author : P. Bieri,Lorenz Krüger,R.-P. Horstmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400994102

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Transcendental Arguments and Science by P. Bieri,Lorenz Krüger,R.-P. Horstmann Pdf

The goal of the present volume is to discuss the notion of a 'conceptual framework' or 'conceptual scheme', which has been dominating much work in the analysis and justification of knowledge in recent years. More specifi cally, this volume is designed to clarify the contrast between two competing approaches in the area of problems indicated by this notion: On the one hand, we have the conviction, underlying much present-day work in the philosophy of science, that the best we can hope for in the justifi cation of empirical knowledge is to reconstruct the conceptual means actually employed by science, and to develop suitable models for analyzing conceptual change involved in the progress of science. This view involves the assumption that we should stop taking foundational questions of epistemology seriously and discard once and for all the quest for uncontrovertible truth. The result ing program of justifying epistemic claims by subsequently describing patterns of inferentially connected concepts as they are at work in actual science is closely connected with the idea of naturalizing epistemology, with concep tual relativism, and with a pragmatic interpretation of knowledge. On the other hand, recent epistemology tends to claim that no subsequent reconstruction of actually employed conceptual frameworks is sufficient for providing epistemic justification for our beliefs about the world. This second claim tries to resist the naturalistic and pragmatic approach to epistemology and insists on taking the epistemological sceptic seriously.

Author : Dariusz Kubok
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110567229

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Thinking Critically: What Does It Mean? by Dariusz Kubok Pdf

Analyses of the dynamics of change present in Europe are not complete without taking into account the role and function of the critical approach as a founding element of European culture. An appreciation of critical thinking must go hand-in-hand with reflection on its essence, forms, and centuries-long tradition. The European philosophical tradition has thematized the problem of criticism since its appearance. This book contains articles on the history of philosophical criticism and ways that it has been understood in European thought. Individual chapters contain both historical-philosophical and problem-oriented analyses, indicating the relationships between philosophical criticism and rationalism, logic, scepticism, atheism, dialectic procedure, and philosophical counseling, among others. Philosophical reflection on critical thinking allows for an acknowledgment of its significance in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of politics, aesthetics, methodology, philosophy of language, and cultural theory. The book should interest not only humanities scholars, but also scholars in other fields, as the development of an anti-dogmatic critical approach is a lasting and indispensible challenge for all disciplines.