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German Idealism
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Discovery through Negation: Hegel’s Path in the Phenomenology of Spirit
The Phenomenology of the Spirit depicts a philosophical path to absolute knowledge, which is intrinsically characterized by the paramount function of negation. Nevertheless, the notion of negation is not to be un...
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The Distinguishing Aesthetics of Music
Music, more than any other fine art, seems to have a direct hold on our humanity. Whereas we can walk through buildings with little notice of their architecture, ignore sculptures and paintings that surround u...
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Schiller’s Aesthetics: Beauty Is Freedom
Friedrich Schiller’s aesthetics targets an education of the whole person, sense-wise and rationality-wise. Develo** a culture of beauty, respecting the morality of the individual, but always striving towards...
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Nature and Extinction
The natural reality of species extinctions throughout geological time provides challenges for philosophy and human self-understanding. This chapter explores how these realities first became undeniable during t...
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“Upward to Freedom”: Schiller on the Nature and Goals of Aesthetic Education
In this chapter, Louden focuses primarily on Schiller’s rich but elusive concept of aesthetic education, in an attempt to answer the following key questions: Why does Schiller place so much weight on aesthetic...
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‘Individuality’ in Hegel’s Early Thought
This chapter considers how Hegel’s early thought gradually absorbed ‘individuality,’ with respect to religion, metaphysics and ethics. Beginning with the model of ‘love,’ he embraces the paradox by which individu...
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‘All is Act, Movement, and Life’: Fichte’s Idealism as Immortalism
In the Vocation of Man, Fichte makes the striking claim that life is eternal, rational, our true being, and the final cause of nature in general and of death in particular. How can we make sense of this claim? I ...
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Reading Kant
This chapter focuses on Jacques Derrida’s forty-year engagement with Kant. Giving Kant a significant place in the early formulation of deconstruction in the 1960s, Derrida spends much of the 1970s responding t...
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From Nichts to Etwas: Transcendental Method and Negation in Hermann Cohen’s Idealism
The goal of this paper is to explain Hermann Cohen´s logic of origin and the role that negativity plays in it. In the first section, we will consider Cohen´s transcendental method. This will lead us to Cohen´s...
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J. Chr. Fr. Schiller: A Life as Mensch of Letters
High’s concise biography focuses on the interplay of Schiller’s personal life and his development as an author and philosopher. After an introduction to Schiller’s early years, family, and university studies, ...
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Difference
This chapter considers the question of difference in the context of the relationships between German Idealism and contemporary philosophy. The main focus is Kant and Hegel, on the side of German Idealism, and ...
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The Role of Philosophy in Schiller’s Poetry
Feminella explores the ways in which Schiller both explicitly and implicitly addresses philosophical concepts in the poems “Ode to Joy,” “The Gods of Greece,” “The Artists,” “The Realm of Shadows,” “The Wordly...
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‘Individuality’ in the Phenomenology of Spirit (II)
This chapter turns to Chapters VI (‘Spirit’) and VII (‘Religion’) in the Phenomenology. I focus on Hegel’s celebrated interpretation of ‘ethical life’ (Sittlichkeit) as tragedy, epitomized in Sophocles’ Antigone....
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Schelling on the Nature of Freedom and the Freedom of Nature: The Role of the Naturphilosophie in the Freiheitsschrift
This chapter focuses on Schelling’s philosophy of nature and shows that it contains an original theory of freedom. I argue that human freedom is a potentiated form of a kind of freedom that can already be foun...
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Reading Maimon
This chapter first develops Maimon’s solution to the Kantian problem of the relation between sensibility and understanding, analyzing the central notion of differentials. Second, it traces the impact of this n...
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Negativity in Cassirer: On the Scope and Limits of a Hegelian Reading of The Philosophy of the Symbolic Forms
Negativity is a crucial term in Classical German Philosophy. Whilst for Fichte the negation of the ‘I’ is constitutive for self-consciousness and Schelling terms transcendental philosophy “negative philosophy,...
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The Development of Schiller’s Philosophical Attitude: Schiller’s Philosophical Education
Schiller’s philosophical attitude developed early on and remained unswerving thereafter, being unaffected by either intellectual or personal events. This was mainly due to the education he had received at the ...
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Reading Strategies for Hegel, Marx, and Laozi
The book begins with an explanation of the divergent reading strategies to be employed in reading its main antagonist (Hegel) and protagonists (Marx and Laozi). It will be explained that the reading strategy f...
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Apocalypse
G. W. F. Hegel and Jacques Derrida are true masters of a carefully mediated messianic political theology, and what they share is a utilization of the apocalypse, that is, the conviction that without the apocalypt...
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Schiller and Kant on Grace and Beauty
Schiller’s essay “On Grace and Dignity” has been taken by many, including Kant himself, to be an attack on Kant’s moral philosophy, understood as requiring that moral motivation must always be a struggle betwe...
