Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Metaphysics

Die in Band 8 des Internationalen Jahrbuchs des Deutschen Idealismus/International Yearbook of German Idealism vereinigten Beitrage beleuchten die mannigfaltigen Bezuge des Idealismus zu den Naturwissenschaften und zur Mathematik aus je unterschiedlicher Perspektive.

In der deutschen Philosophie nach Kant machen der Begriff der Natur und die begrifflichen Grundlagen der Mathematik eine uberaus komplexe Entwicklung durch. Zentrale Punkte sind: die Grundlegung der Mathematik, das Verhaltnis von Freiheit und Natur, die Bedeutung der Philosophie fur die aufkommende...

Martin Heidegger's The Event offers his most substantial self-critique of his Contributions to Philosophy: Of the Event and articulates what he means by the event itself. Richard Rojcewicz's elegant translation offers the English-speaking reader intimate contact with one of the most basic Heideggerian concepts. This book lays out how the event is to be understood and ties it closely to looking, showing, self-manifestation, and the self-unveiling of the gods. The Event (Complete Works, volume 71) is part of a series of Heidegger's private writings in response to Contributions.

In his magnum opus, the Historical and Critical Dictionary, Pierre Bayle offered a series of brilliant criticisms of the major philosophical and theological systems of the 17^th Century. Although officially skeptical concerning the attempt to provide a definitive account of the truths of metaphysics, there is reason to see Bayle as a reluctant skeptic. In particular, Todd Ryan contends that Bayle harbored deep sympathy for the attempt by Descartes and his most innovative successor, Nicolas Malebranche, to establish a metaphysical system that would provide a foundation...

Kant's critical philosophy is rife with conflicting and aporetic doctrines. Amongst several difficult doctrines, one of the most salient and obscure discussions surrounds Kant's view of the imagination, Einbildungskraft. One finds Kant's initial discussion of the imagination in the section entitled the Transcendental Deduction in his Critique of Pure Reason; by Kant's own admission, the section that cost him the most labor.

Instrumental in these most critical passagesis Kant's discussion of the imagination, but, due to revisions and emendations and a seeming change...

This book argues the case for a foundationalist ethics centrally based on an empirical understanding of human nature. For Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, "an ethics formulated on the foundations of anything other than human nature, hence on anything other than an identification of pan-cultural human realities, lacks solid empirical moorings. It easily loses itself in isolated hypotheticals, reductionist scenarios, or theoretical abstractions--in the prisoner's dilemma, selfish genes, dedicated brain modules, evolutionary altruism, or psychological egoism, for example--or it easily becomes itself...