Western philosophy: Enlightenment

Philosophie als wissenschaftliches System bedarf eines obersten Einheitspunktes, der all ihre Systemteile methodisch zusammenführt, ja ihre Entstehung und ihr Funktionieren allererst ermöglicht und sie im eigentlichen Sinne zur Transzendentalphilosophie macht.

Fichtes Transscendentale Logik gehört zu seinen größten Leistungen überhaupt.

Over the course of the eighteenth century, European intellectuals shifted from admiring China as a utopian place of wonder to despising it as a backwards and despotic state.

Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge zur praktischen Philosophie bekannter und weniger bekannter Philosophen im Ausgang von Kant.

Der Kantische Briefwechsel stellt für die Kantforschung eine profunde Quelle dar: eine Quelle sowohl für Kants äußeren Lebensweg wie auch für die Entstehung seines Werks und dessen unmittelbare Wirkungsgeschichte.

First comprehensive account of Kant''s cosmopolitanism, offering a novel interpretation of eighteenth-century and current philosophical discussions.

This volume highlights and offers different perspectives on the controversies provoked by this central text of Western philosophy.

Challenging the common assumption that the Enlightenment of the late seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries was an essentially secular, irreligious and atheistic movement, this book critiques this standard interpretation as based on a narrow view of Enlightenment sources.

This book argues that everything important about Kant''s moral philosophy emerges from common human experience of the conflict between happiness and morality.

How the concept of ';deep time' began as a metaphor used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesIn this interdisciplinary book, Noah Heringman argues that the concept of ';deep time'most often associated with geological epochsbegan as a metaphorical language used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to explore the origins of life beyond the written record.

The problem of free will is one of the oldest and most central philosophical conundrums.

This book presents a historically informed, theoretically systematic, and critically articulated theory of respect that challenges many of the presuppositions of the current debate in ethics and politics.

This book argues that Sellars' theory of intentionality can be understood as an advancement of a transcendental philosophical approach.

Beginning with an overview of Hume's life and work, Don Garrett introduces in clear and accessible style the central aspects of Hume's thought.

This book reconstructs Heidegger's philosophy of time by reading his work with and against a series of key interlocutors that he nominates as being central to his own critical history of time.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Kants Kriterium der Wahrheit" verfügbar.

This book explores and examines the political philosophies of enlightenment women across Europe in the eighteenth century.

In this book, Westphal offers an original interpretation of Hegel's moral philosophy.

How Molyneux''s Question shaped the conflict between empiricism and idealism in nineteenth-century British, American and Australian landscape painting and criticism.

Hume's Enquiry: Expanded and Explained includes the entire classical text of David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding in bold font, a running commentary blended seamlessly into the text in regular font, and analytic summaries of each section.

The keywords of the Enlightenment-freedom, tolerance, rights, equality-are today heard everywhere, and they are used to endorse a wide range of positions, some of which are in perfect contradiction.

"e;Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis.

Exorbitant Enlightenment compels us to see eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature and culture in new ways.

Intended for scholars in the fields of political theory, and the history of political thought, this two-volume examines David Hume's Political Thought (1711-1776) and that of his contemporaries, including Smith, Blackstone, Burke and Robertson.

Rene Descartes credited his success in philosophy, mathematics, and physics to the discovery of a universal method of inquiry, but he provided no systematic description of his method.

Freedom and its internal relation to reason is fundamental to Descartes' philosophy in general, and to his Meditations on First Philosophy in particular.

Diese knapp gefaßte Studie zu einem zentralen Problem der Systematik der "Kritik der reinen Vernunft" gibt eine direkt aus dem Text begründete Herleitung der Vollständigkeit der Kantischen Urteilstafel.

Salomo Friedlaender was a prolific German-Jewish philosopher, poet, and satirist.

Modern philosophy originates during the scientific revolution, and Michael Jacovides provides an engaging account of how this scientific background influences one of the foremost figures of early modern philosophy, John Locke.

Stadler presenta la investigación más completa que se haya escrito hasta ahora sobre el grupo de pensadores y filósofos conocidos como el Círculo de Viena.

This is the first book-length study in English of Kant''s legal metaphors, whose philosophical importance has so far been overlooked.

Eliza Fowler Haywood (c.

History ended, according to Hegel according to Kojève, with the establishment and proliferation in Europe of states organized along Napoleonic lines: rational, bureaucratic, homogenous, atheist.

The literary and scientific renaissance that struck Germany around 1800 is usually taken to be the cradle of contemporary humanism.

Kant's discussion of the relations between cognition and self-consciousness lie at the heart of the Critique of Pure Reason, in the celebrated transcendental deduction.

Wie vielleicht kein anderes seiner Werke repräsentieren Reinholds Verhandlungen sein lebenslanges Bemühen, die Aufklärung in Kooperation und Auseinandersetzung mit anderen Selbstdenkern voranzutreiben.

German Idealism was one of the most fertile and important movements in the history of Western philosophy.

Explores Kant''s account of the sublime in the context of the rationalist tradition.

Die 1766 erschienenen »Träume eines Geistersehers« nehmen eine Schlüsselstellung in Kants Werk ein.