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Author : Frank Honywill George
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9782881241109
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Purposive Behaviour and Teleological Explanations written by Frank Honywill George and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lea Ypi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191065420
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Architectonic of Reason written by Lea Ypi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Architectonic of Pure Reason, one of the most important sections of Kant's first Critique, raises three fundamental questions. What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? Taken together these questions converge on a fourth one, which is at the centre of philosophy as a whole: what is the human being? Lea Ypi suggests that the answer to this question is tied to a particular account of the unity of reason - one that stresses its purposive character. By focusing on the sources, evolution and function of Kant's concept of purposiveness, this book shows that the idea of purposiveness that Kant endorses in the Critique of Pure Reason is a concept of purposiveness as intelligent design, quite different from the concept of purposiveness as normativity that will become central to his later works. In the case of purposiveness as design, the relationship between reason and nature is anchored to the idea of God. In the case of purposiveness as normativity, it is anchored to the concept of reflexive judgment, and grounded on transcendental freedom. Understanding this shift has important implications for some of the most difficult questions that confront the Kantian system: the passage from the system of nature to that of freedom, the relation between faith and knowledge, the philosophical defence of progress in history, and the role of religion. It is also crucial to shed light on the way in which Kant's critique has shaped the successive German philosophical tradition.
Author : Eric S. Nelson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107132991
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Interpreting Dilthey written by Eric S. Nelson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Dilthey's hermeneutics, aesthetics, practical philosophy, and philosophy of history, showing how his work remains relevant for philosophers today.
Author : Edmund Noble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Purposive Evolution written by Edmund Noble and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521348928
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (489 download)
Download or read book Critique of the Power of Judgment written by Immanuel Kant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Critique of the Power of Judgment (a more accurate rendition of what has hitherto been translated as the Critique of Judgment) is the third of Kant's great critiques following the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of Practical Reason. This translation of Kant's masterpiece follows the principles and high standards of all other volumes in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant. This volume, first published in 2000, includes: the indispensable first draft of Kant's introduction to the work; an English edition notes to the many differences between the first (1790) and second (1793) editions of the work; and relevant passages in Kant's anthropology lectures where he elaborated on his aesthetic views. All in all this edition offers the serious student of Kant a dramatically richer, more complete and more accurate translation.
Author : Gerald P. McKenny
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791434734
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (347 download)
Download or read book To Relieve the Human Condition written by Gerald P. McKenny and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that standard forms of bioethics support the technological utopianism of medicine. Puts forth an alternative agenda arguing that the task of bioethics is to explore the moral significance of the body as it is expressed in the discourse and practice of moral and religious traditions.
Author : Robert Wicks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134461895
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Kant on Judgment written by Robert Wicks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant’s Critique of Judgment is one of the most important texts in the history of modern aesthetics. This GuideBook discusses the Third Critique section by section, and introduces and assesses: Kant's life and the background of the Critique of Judgment the ideas and text of the Critique of Judgment, including a critical explanation of Kant’s theories of natural beauty the continuing relevance of Kant’s work to contemporary philosophy and aesthetics. This GuideBook is an accessible introduction to a notoriously difficult work and will be essential reading for students of Kant and aesthetics.
Author : R. Rignano
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317829794
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Nature of Life written by R. Rignano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. This is Volume IV of six in the Library of Philosophy series on the Philosophy of Science. Written in 1930, this volume looks at the nature of vital phenomena, which has been for so long the subject of dispute between vitalists and mechanists. It discusses the concepts of purpose, explanation and phenomena, the attitudes around and differences of categorisation.
Author : C. Zumbach
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400961049
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Transcendent Science written by C. Zumbach and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most neglected sector of Kant's Critical Philosophy is his collec tion of remarks about biological phenomena in the second part of the Critique of Judgment, the Critique of Teleological Judgment. The reasons for this are numerous, but since in Kant, everything comes in threes, a three-fold collection will suffice. The Critique of Teleological Judgment itself is one reason. More than most of his writings, this segment of the Critical corpus suffers from what can most charitably be termed "mistakes of exposition. " In this part of the third Critique, it is commonplace to find sub-arguments in Kant's general position somewhere other than their logical niche. The result is that the general theme behind his remarks about living phenomena is obscured. This difficulty has done much to discourage even the most enthusiastic of Kant admirers from investing their time on this work. Secondly, in this century, until very recently, there has been little interest in philosophical questions about biology. Twenty-one out of thirty-one sections of the Critique of Teleological Judgment (sections #61 and 63-83) deal either directly or indirectly with issues of interest in the philosophy of biology. Finally, the Critique of Teleological Judgment has been placed among the last on that list "of writings thought to formulate Kant's Critical system. This is not merely because of its temporal position.
Author : Bjørn K. Myskja
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110881136
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Sublime in Kant and Beckett written by Bjørn K. Myskja and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beckett's novel Molloy and the question how this work evokes a particular kind of feeling associated with its exhibition of meaninglessness, namely the feeling of the sublime, is the point of departure for this study. Kant's theory of the sublime is interpreted within the framework of his aesthetic and moral theories, suggesting a way to understand the claim to universal validity for aesthetic judgements. Kant claims that the judgement of the sublime serves morality but he fails to provide this link, so a theory of how this aesthetic judgement can contribute to the cultivation of moral character is developed. It is argued that Kant held that art, including narrative art like the novel, can be sublime. Kant's theory of the sublime is shown to be relevant for modern works of art, and the application of this Kantian framework throws new light on the discussion of the moral aspects of Beckett's literary work. According to this account, Molloy is a sublime work of art, and despite its amoral content can serve the reader's moral cultivation.
Author : Jonathan Loesberg
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804751162
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (511 download)
Download or read book A Return to Aesthetics written by Jonathan Loesberg and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Return to Aesthetics confronts postmodernism's rejection of aesthetics by showing that this critique rests on central concepts of classical aesthetic theory, namely autonomous form, disinterest, and symbolic discourse. The author argues for the value of these concepts by recovering them through a historical reinterpretation of their meaning prior to their distortion by twentieth-century formalism. Loesberg then applies these concepts to a discussion of two of the most significant critics of the ideology of Enlightenment, Foucault and Bourdieu. He argues that understanding the role of aesthetics in the postmodern critique of Enlightenment will get us out of the intellectual impasse wherein numbingly repeated attacks upon postmodernism as self-contradictory match numbingly repeated defenses. Construing postmodern critiques as examples of aesthetic reseeing gives us a new understanding of the postmodern critique of the Enlightenment.
Author : Bernard Feltz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402039164
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Self-organization and Emergence in Life Sciences written by Bernard Feltz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-organization constitutes one of the most important theoretical debates in contemporary life sciences. The present book explores the relevance of the concept of self-organization and its impact on such scientific fields as: immunology, neurosciences, ecology and theories of evolution. Historical aspects of the issue are also broached. Intuitions relative to self-organization can be found in the works of such key western philosophical figures as Aristotle, Leibniz and Kant. Interacting with more recent authors and cybernetics, self-organization represents a notion in keeping with the modern world's discovery of radical complexity. The themes of teleology and emergence are analyzed by philosophers of sciences with regards to the issues of modelization and scientific explanation. The implications of self-organization for life sciences are here approached from an interdisciplinary angle, revealing the notion as already rewarding and full of promise for the future.
Author : J.H Bernard
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752398388
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)
Download or read book Kant's Critique of Judgement written by J.H Bernard and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Kant's Critique of Judgement by J.H Bernard
Author : Joseph J. Tanke
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441138269
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The Bloomsbury Anthology of Aesthetics written by Joseph J. Tanke and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary sources, this textbook offers a comprehensive and systematic historical overview of aesthetic theory.
Author : Lucas Thorpe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441122486
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The Kant Dictionary written by Lucas Thorpe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kant Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Immanuel Kant, one of the most important and influential thinkers in the history of philosophy. Meticulously researched and extensively cross-referenced, this unique book covers all his major works, ideas and influences and provides a firm grounding in the central themes of Kant's thought. A-Z entries include clear definitions of all the key terms used in Kant's writings and detailed synopses of his key works. The Dictionary also includes entries on Kant's major philosophical influences, such as Plato, Descartes, Berkeley and Leibniz, and those he influenced and engaged with, including Fichte, Hume and Rousseau. It covers everything that is essential to a sound understanding of Kant's philosophy, offering clear and accessible explanations of often complex terminology. Providing a wealth of useful information, analysis and criticism The Kant Dictionary is the ideal resource for anyone reading or studying Kant or Modern European Philosophy more generally.
Author : Ayon Maharaj
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 144118693X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The Dialectics of Aesthetic Agency written by Ayon Maharaj and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines how key figures in the German aesthetic tradition - Kant, Schelling, Friedrich Schlegel, Hegel, and Adorno - attempted to think through the powers and limits of art in post-Enlightenment modernity. Ayon Maharaj argues that the aesthetic speculations of these thinkers provide the conceptual resources for a timely dialectical defense of “aesthetic agency”- art's capacity to make available uniquely valuable modes of experience that escape the purview of Enlightenment scientific rationality. Blending careful philosophical analysis with an intellectual historian's attention to the broader cultural resonance of philosophical arguments, Maharaj has two interrelated aims. He provides challenging new interpretations of the aesthetic philosophies of Kant, Schelling, Schlegel, Hegel, and Adorno by focusing on aspects of their thought that have been neglected or misunderstood in Anglo-American and German scholarship. He demonstrates that their subtle investigations into the nature and scope of aesthetic agency have far-reaching implications for contemporary discourse on the arts. The Dialectics of Aesthetic Agency is an important and original contribution to scholarship on the German aesthetic tradition and to the broader field of aesthetics.
Author : Günter Figal
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253015650
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Aesthetics as Phenomenology written by Günter Figal and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connecting aesthetic experience with our experience of nature or with other cultural artifacts, Aesthetics as Phenomenology focuses on what art means for cognition, recognition, and affect—how art changes our everyday disposition or behavior. Günter Figal engages in a penetrating analysis of the moment at which, in our contemplation of a work of art, reaction and thought confront each other. For those trained in the visual arts and for more casual viewers, Figal unmasks art as a decentering experience that opens further possibilities for understanding our lives and our world.
