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History of Philosophy
2023 - 2023
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The Difference Between Hegel and Schelling on Freedom and Negation
This paper addresses the relationship between freedom and negativity in the early works of G.W.F. Hegel and F.W.J. Schelling. Its guiding concern is to locate the role of negativity (and positivity) in giving ...
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Nothing [Christoph Asmuth; Translator: Niels Feuerhahn]
In contrast to being, there seems to be nothing to say about nothingness. The impression, however, is deceptive. A shrewd sophist, who greatly annoyed Plato, has left us a dazzling piece of ancient rhetoric th...
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Caput Mortuum: Truth, Freedom, and Negation in Fichte’s Institutiones Omnis Philosophiae
Rejecting the tendency to regard Fichte as merely a transitional figure in the development of German idealism, the following paper argues that, in the years following his dismissal from Jena, Fichte will come ...
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On Positive Philosophy: Hegel’s Retort to Schelling
Concentrating on Schelling’s lectures of 1833–1834 regarding the history of philosophy, together with the Berlin lectures of 1842, I will discuss Schelling’s critique of negative philosophy in light of Hegel’s...
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Negation, Contradiction, and Hegel’s Emancipation of Truth, Right, and Beauty
Thinkers have never been able to deny the centrality of negation and contradiction in everything human, despite all their efforts to banish both from the domains of truth, right, and beauty. Unless we properly...
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Through Consciousness Parted from Dream: Alternative Knowledge Forms in Karoline von Günderrode
Karoline von Günderrode’s reputation as a mystical writer makes her a likely candidate as a proponent of a negative philosophy. However, the historical emphasis on Günderrode’s mystical and lyrical writings re...
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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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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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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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Nothingness, Negativity, and Buddhism in Schopenhauer
In this chapter, I reexamine how the interpretation of nothingness and negativity in Schopenhauer—within the wider nineteenth-century philosophical context, particularly in reference to his perceived rival Heg...
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Kant’s Negative Noumena as Abstracta
This paper takes a fresh look at Kant’s transcendental idealism with a new reading of negative noumena as abstract entities. It shows that the three criteria for abstractness, i.e., non-spatiotemporality, caus...
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The Emptiness of Being: Schelling and Nishitani on the Problem of Absolute Negation
Schelling and Nishitani both confront the problem of absolute negation in post-Kantian philosophy and drive it beyond its eventual development into existentialism. This essay seeks not so much to sort out all ...
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Nothing Really Matters: Can Kant’s Table of Nothing Secure Metaphysics as Queen of the Sciences?
At what is arguably the most significant turning point in the Critique of Pure Reason, where Immanuel Kant has just completed his exploration of the safe ground of possible experience and is about to embark on th...
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Positivity and Time in Schelling’s Philosophical Development
Though Schelling makes the distinction between positive and negative philosophy in the later period, and starts to develop his positive philosophy mainly in his philosophy of religion (ca. 1840), this paper wi...
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The Relation between Reality and Negation in Kant, Maimon, and Fichte
The aim of this paper is to show that the binary notions of reality and negation play an important role in the philosophical agenda of Kant, Maimon and Fichte. The paper has three sections. The first section i...
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The Emergence of the Unprethinkable: On Schelling’s Methodology in 1821 and His Early Critique of Hegel
Long before the famous notion of “unprethinkable being” is vastly used in Schelling’s later works, it is forged within his Weltalter project during the second decade of the nineteenth century. The first products ...
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Hegel’s “Negation Driven to the Limit” – Reality and Ideality of Finitude [Anne Becker; Translator: Niels Feuerhahn]
This paper will focus, first of all, on becoming and the problematic unity that results from it. We will begin with the question of how Hegel determines the existent foundation [daseiende Grundlage] of the Scienc...
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Infinite Judgments: The Non-Being of the Idea [Anna Longo; Translator: Martijn Buijs]
Infinite judgments have been known since antiquity, yet they have been forgotten since the establishment of modern logic. Infinite judgements are meant to address non-being not as a negation of being but as th...
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Prefacing the Absolute: Two Models of Situating Self-Negating Negativity in Hegel’s Wissenschaft der Logik from 1812 and 1832
In the opening of his logic, Hegel famously claims to have established the absolute beginning of philosophy with pure being, which subsequently unfolds itself as self-negating negativity. Strikingly, this abso...
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Hegel’s Logic of Negation
In his introduction to the General Concept of the Logic, Hegel writes: “What propels the concept onward is the already mentioned negative which it possesses in itself; it is this that constitutes the truly dialec...
