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Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Addresses to the German Nation (1807/08)
Volume 2. From Absolutism to Napoleon, 1648-1815 Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Addresses to the German Nation (1807/08) Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) was a distinguished post-Kantian philosopher and notorious intellectual radical who was stripped of his Jena professorship in 1798 after allegations of atheism and Jacobinism were raised against him. Finding refuge in Prussia, he was appointed professor at the new University of Berlin, a post he held from 1810 until his death, four years later, at the age of 52. His addresses have been stigmatized as expressions of intolerant and megalomaniacal German nationalism. In reality, their worst fault is intemperate anti-French sentiment, not surprising in the era of the Napoleonic domination of Germany. These excerpts display Fichte’s inclination to interpret “Germanness” as a philosophical disposition that includes a drive toward the attainment of freedom and a liberal state (though he does not advocate a single German nation-state). The text displays the influence of German liberal historicism, Kantian moral-political philosophy, and Herderian concerns with national identity. Addresses to the German Nation Johann Gottlieb Fichte Seventh Address A Closer Study of the Originality and Characteristics of a People In the preceding addresses we have indicated and proved from history the characteristics of the Germans as an original people, and as a people that has the right to call itself simply the people, in contrast to other branches that have been torn away from it; for indeed the word “deutsch” in its real signification denotes what we have just said. It will be in accordance with our purpose if we devote another hour to this subject and deal with a possible objection, viz., that if this is something peculiarly German one must confess that at the present time there is but little left that is German among the Germans themselves. -
Novalis's Magical Idealism
Symphilosophie International Journal of Philosophical Romanticism Novalis’s Magical Idealism A Threefold Philosophy of the Imagination, Love and Medicine Laure Cahen-Maurel* ABSTRACT This article argues that Novalis’s philosophy of magical idealism essentially consists of three central elements: a theory of the creative or productive imagination, a conception of love, and a doctrine of transcendental medicine. In this regard, it synthesizes two adjacent, but divergent contemporary philosophical sources – J. G. Fichte’s idealism and Friedrich Schiller’s classicism – into a new and original philosophy. It demonstrates that Novalis’s views on both magic and idealism, not only prove to be perfectly rational and comprehensible, but even more philosophically coherent and innovative than have been recognised up to now. Keywords: magical idealism, productive imagination, love, medicine, Novalis, J. G. Fichte, Schiller RÉSUMÉ Cet article défend l’idée selon laquelle trois éléments centraux composent ce que Novalis nomme « idéalisme magique » pour désigner sa philosophie propre : la conception d’une imagination créatrice ou productrice, une doctrine de l’amour et une théorie de la médecine transcendantale. L’idéalisme magique est en cela la synthèse en une philosophie nouvelle et originale de deux sources philosophiques contemporaines, à la fois adjacentes et divergentes : l’idéalisme de J. G. Fichte et le classicisme de Friedrich Schiller. L’article montre que les vues de Novalis tant sur la magie que sur l’idéalisme sont non seulement réellement rationnelles et compréhensibles, mais philosophiquement plus cohérentes et novatrices qu’on ne l’a admis jusqu’à présent. Mots-clés : idéalisme magique, imagination productrice, amour, médecine, Novalis, J. G. -
Qualitative Freedom
Claus Dierksmeier Qualitative Freedom - Autonomy in Cosmopolitan Responsibility Translated by Richard Fincham Qualitative Freedom - Autonomy in Cosmopolitan Responsibility Claus Dierksmeier Qualitative Freedom - Autonomy in Cosmopolitan Responsibility Claus Dierksmeier Institute of Political Science University of Tübingen Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Translated by Richard Fincham American University in Cairo New Cairo, Egypt Published in German by Published by Transcript Qualitative Freiheit – Selbstbestimmung in weltbürgerlicher Verantwortung, 2016. ISBN 978-3-030-04722-1 ISBN 978-3-030-04723-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04723-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018964905 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019. This book is an open access publication. Open Access This book is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the book’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the book’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. -
THE PHILOSOPHY BOOK George Santayana (1863-1952)
Georg Hegel (1770-1831) ................................ 30 Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) ................. 32 Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804-1872) ...... 32 John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) .......................... 33 Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) ..................... 33 Karl Marx (1818-1883).................................... 34 Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) ................ 35 Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914).............. 35 William James (1842-1910) ............................ 36 The Modern World 1900-1950 ............................. 36 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) .................... 37 Ahad Ha'am (1856-1927) ............................... 38 Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) ............. 38 Edmund Husserl (1859–1938) ....................... 39 Henri Bergson (1859-1941) ............................ 39 Contents John Dewey (1859–1952) ............................... 39 Introduction....................................................... 1 THE PHILOSOPHY BOOK George Santayana (1863-1952) ..................... 40 The Ancient World 700 BCE-250 CE..................... 3 Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) ................... 40 Introduction Thales of Miletus (c.624-546 BCE)................... 3 William Du Bois (1868-1963) .......................... 41 Laozi (c.6th century BCE) ................................. 4 Philosophy is not just the preserve of brilliant Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) ........................ 41 Pythagoras (c.570-495 BCE) ............................ 4 but eccentric thinkers that it is popularly Max Scheler -
JACOBI and FICHTE on PHILOSOPHY and LIFE Rolf Ahlers
VITALISM AND SYSTEM: JACOBI AND FICHTE ON PHILOSOPHY AND LIFE Rolf Ahlers Abstract: This paper thematizes the crucial agreement and point of depar- ture between Jacobi and Fichte at the height of the “atheism controversy.” The argument on the proper relationship between philosophy and existence or speculation and life had far-reaching consequences in the history of thought after Jacobi and Fichte in German Idealism on the one hand, primarly advo- cated by Schelling and Hegel, and on the other hand by existentialism and vitalism. The essay focuses first on Jacobi’s philosophy of life, which cen- trally influenced and attracted Fichte to Jacobi. Jacobi’s dualism between speculation, of which he was skeptical, and life, became Fichte’s dualism. Fichte’s transcendentalism, however, prioritized, contrary to Jacobi, both speculation and systematicity. Both of these elements became central for later forms of German Idealism. In the last part of the essay Hegel’s absolute idealism becomes the platform affording a critical perspective on Fichte’s transcendental philosophy. The immediacy of life could for Fichte in 1799 not have any reality without the abstraction from life accomplished by speculative philosophy. Both “speculation” and “life” do not really have any common ground between them—a position which Reinhold attempted to find—because both oppose each other but are also dependent upon another. As “life” could not be had without speculation, so “speculation” is impossible without life, for it needs life to be able to abstract from it. Fichte made this very clear at the height of the “atheism-controversy,” in a letter to Jacobi of April 22, 1799,1 in which he says this (1799:61):2 The original duality, which traverses through the whole system of reason, and which is grounded in the duality of the subject-object is here on its highest plateau. -
The 'New' Heidegger
Fordham University Masthead Logo DigitalResearch@Fordham Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Philosophy Collections 1-2015 The ‘New’ Heidegger Babette Babich [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://fordham.bepress.com/phil_babich Part of the Continental Philosophy Commons, Digital Humanities Commons, Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons, Other German Language and Literature Commons, Physical Sciences and Mathematics Commons, Radio Commons, and the Reading and Language Commons Recommended Citation Babich, Babette, "The ‘New’ Heidegger" (2015). Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections. 65. https://fordham.bepress.com/phil_babich/65 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Philosophy at DigitalResearch@Fordham. It has been accepted for inclusion in Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections by an authorized administrator of DigitalResearch@Fordham. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Chapter 10 The ‘New’ Heidegger Babette Babich 10.1 Calculating Heidegger: From the Old to the New The ‘new’ Heidegger corresponds less to what would or could be the Heidegger of the moment on some imagined ‘cutting edge’ than it corresponds to what some wish they had in Heidegger and above all in philosophical discussions of Heidegger’s thought. We have moved, we suppose, beyond grappling with the Heidegger of Being and Time . And we also tend to suppose a fairly regular recurrence of scandal—the current instantiation infl amed by the recent publication of Heidegger’s private, philosophical, Tagebücher, invokes what the editor of these recently published ‘black notebooks’ attempts to distinguish as Heidegger’s ‘historial antisemitism’ — ‘historial’ here serving to identify Heidegger’s references to World Jewry in one of the volumes. -
Analytic Philosophy and the Hegelian Turn Author(S): Tom Rockmore Source: the Review of Metaphysics, Vol
Analytic Philosophy and the Hegelian Turn Author(s): Tom Rockmore Source: The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 55, No. 2 (Dec., 2001), pp. 339-370 Published by: Philosophy Education Society Inc. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20131711 Accessed: 13-11-2016 14:01 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms Philosophy Education Society Inc. is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Review of Metaphysics This content downloaded from 200.16.5.202 on Sun, 13 Nov 2016 14:01:37 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY AND THE HEGELIAN TURN TOM ROCKMORE I. HE BEGINNING OF THE NEW CENTURY provides a good time to reflect on the most influential philosophers of this period, or those most likely to survive, or again whom we should be reading in a hundred years. The answer one gives to this type of question obviously de pends on what one thinks philosophy is about. I would like to suggest that at the beginning of the new century, at the start of the new millen nium, the philosopher we will and should still be reading at the end of the new century is not one of the obvious candidates, like Russell, Wit tgenstein, Quine, Heidegger, Peirce, or Dewey, Rorty's favorite, but the nineteenth century German thinker, G. -
Immanuel Kant and the Development of Modern Psychology David E
University of Richmond UR Scholarship Repository Psychology Faculty Publications Psychology 1982 Immanuel Kant and the Development of Modern Psychology David E. Leary University of Richmond, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.richmond.edu/psychology-faculty- publications Part of the Theory and Philosophy Commons Recommended Citation Leary, David E. "Immanuel Kant and the Development of Modern Psychology." In The Problematic Science: Psychology in Nineteenth- Century Thought, edited by William Ray Woodward and Mitchell G. Ash, 17-42. New York, NY: Praeger, 1982. This Book Chapter is brought to you for free and open access by the Psychology at UR Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Psychology Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of UR Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1 Immanuel Kant and the Development of Modern Psychology David E. Leary Few thinkers in the history of Western civilization have had as broad and lasting an impact as Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). This "Sage of Konigsberg" spent his entire life within the confines of East Prussia, but his thoughts traveled freely across Europe and, in time, to America, where their effects are still apparent. An untold number of analyses and commentaries have established Kant as a preeminent epistemologist, philosopher of science, moral philosopher, aestheti cian, and metaphysician. He is even recognized as a natural historian and cosmologist: the author of the so-called Kant-Laplace hypothesis regarding the origin of the universe. He is less often credited as a "psychologist," "anthropologist," or "philosopher of mind," to Work on this essay was supported by the National Science Foundation (Grant No. -
Dec. 2016 CURRICULUM VITAE RUTH ABBEY Educational Background Phd in Political Science, Mcgill University, 1995. Di
Updated – Dec. 2016 CURRICULUM VITAE RUTH ABBEY Educational Background PhD in Political Science, McGill University, 1995. Dissertation: Descent & Dissent: Nietzsche's Reading of Two French Moralists. Supervisor: Charles Taylor. MA in Political Science, McGill University, 1989 Research paper: John Dewey: A Fresh Look BA, Monash University, 1984. First class honours in Political Science and a Major in English. Thesis title: The Liberation of the senses in Karl Marx’s Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 Career Current Position Professor, Dept. of Political Science, University of Notre Dame Previous Positions 2005-2013 Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science, University of Notre Dame 2008-2009 Faculty Fellow Murphy Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs Tulane University, New Orleans 2002-2005 Senior Lecturer Department of Politics & International Relations University of Kent at Canterbury 2000-2002 Lecturer in Political Theory, Department of Politics and International Relations, UKC 2000 Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Australia 1999-2000 Member of the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 2 1999 Acting Director, Politics & Law Program, College of Law, University of Notre Dame, Australia Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Western Australia. 1997 Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Social & Political Sciences, Cambridge University (Michaelmas Term) 1996-1997 Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science, University of Western Australia -
Heidegger's Will to Power and the Problem of Nietzsche's Nihilism
University of South Florida Scholar Commons Graduate Theses and Dissertations Graduate School November 2019 Heidegger's Will to Power and the Problem of Nietzsche's Nihilism Megan Flocken University of South Florida Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd Part of the Philosophy Commons Scholar Commons Citation Flocken, Megan, "Heidegger's Will to Power and the Problem of Nietzsche's Nihilism" (2019). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/8098 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Heidegger's Will to Power and the Problem of Nietzsche's Nihilism by Megan Flocken A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy College of Arts and Sciences University of South Florida Major Professor: Lee Braver, Ph.D. Charles Guignon, Ph.D. Ofelia Schutte, Ph.D. Iain Thomson, Ph.D. Stephen Turner, Ph.D. Date of Approval: November 12, 2019 Keywords: continental philosophy, ontology, comparative philosophy, Kehre Copyright © 2019, Megan Flocken TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT .................................................................................................................................... ii CHAPTER ONE: HEIDEGGER’S WILL TO POWER AND THE PROBLEM OF NIETZSCHE’S -
Patrick A. Heelan, S.J.: Bibliography
PATRICK A. HEELAN, S.J.: BIBLIOGRAPHY 2001 Book review of: Science Unfettered, by James E. McGuire and Barbara Tuchanska. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2000. Review ofMetaphysics, 55 (200 I). Theological and Philosophical Foundations of Modem Science, in Science and Faith: The Problem of the Human Being in Science and Theology. Ed. by Natalia Pecherskaya. St. Petersburg, Russia: St. Petersburg School of Religion and Philosophy, 2001. Pp. 80-86. Lifeworld and Scientific Interpretation, published on www.georgetown. edulheelan (to be included in the Handbook ofPhenomenology and Medicine, ed. by Kay Toombs). Faith and Reason in the University: Commentary on John Paul Il's Encyclical Fides et Ratio 1998, published on www.georgetown.edu/heelan (to be included in a volume to honor Jean Ladriere, ed. by Jean-Franyois Malherbe). 2000 Bernard J. F. Lonergan as a Contemporary Christian Philosopher: Lonergan and the Measures of God, in The Questions of Christian Philosophy Today. Ed. by Francis Ambrosio. New York: Fordham University Press, 2000. Pp. 165-188. Visual Space as Variable and Task-Oriented: A Study ofVan Gogh's 'Modem; Use of Scientific Perspective, published on www.georgetown.edu/heelan. 1999 Nietzsche's Perspectivalism and the Philosophy of Science, in Nietzsche, Epistemology, and the Philosophy ofScience, Vol. II. Ed. by Babette E. Babich and RobertS. Cohen. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 204. Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer, 1999. Pp. 193-209. Hermeneutics and Natural Science, in Continental Philosophers in America. Ed. by James R. Watson. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press 1999. Pp. 64-73. 1998 Scope of Hermeneutics in the Philosophy of Natural Science, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 29 (1998), 273-298. -
Philosophy Department
PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT 3 0 3 DUQUESNE GRADUATE PHILOSOPHY NEWS Spring 2011 • Volume 4, Issue 1 DEPARTMENT NEWS The Philosophy Department welcomes the Rev. Brian Cronin, C.S.Sp., as a visiting associate professor. Fr. Cronin received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston College and has taught for numerous years at the Spiritan Mission Seminary in Arusha, Tanzania. His primary scholarly work has involved the philosophy of Bernard Lonergan. In addition to teaching classes in the Philosophy Department, he will also serve as our liaison to the Spiritan Mission Seminary in Arusha. The department continues its Fulbright Scholar Louis Butler (left) and Dr. Patrick Miller, the teacher who inspired him to collaboration major in philosophy, sharing a lighter moment with a stuffed toy raccoon, an animal that with the Spiritan Dr. Miller says serves as a reminder of Aristotelian philosophy’s roots in biology. Missionary Seminary in Arusha, Tanzania. Louis Butler, who earned his bachelor’s degree in 2011, received a Fulbright Kathy Weber, a Scholarship to study in Munich. He will use the scholarship to follow a program graduate teaching of study he designed with a professor at the University of Munich, which focuses assistant, will be teaching full time in its on the thinking of the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus and the 19th-century undergraduate program this upcoming German philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and G.W.F. Hegel. Since his freshman academic year. year he has worked closely with Dr. Patrick Miller. In conjunction with the initiative for teaching in Tanzania and Kenya, we are continuing our African Book Project, for which we will accept We welcome any news from alumni.