Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Movements - Rationalism

Heidegger's Platonism challenges Heidegger's 1940 interpretation of Plato as the philosopher who initiated the West's ontological decline into contemporary nihilism. Mark A. Ralkowski argues that, in his earlier lecture course, On the Essence of Truth, in which he appropriates Plato in a positive light, Heidegger discovered the two most important concepts of his later thought, namely the difference between the Being of beings and Being as such, and the 'belonging together' of Being and man in what he eventually calls Ereignis, the 'event of appropriation'.

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Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) was one of the most notorious and pious of Rene Descartes' philosophical followers. A member of The Oratory, a Roman Catholic order founded in 1611 to increase devotion to the Church and St. Augustine, Malebranche brought together his Cartesianism and his Augustinianism in a rigorous theological-philosophical system.Malebranche's occasionalist metaphysics asserts that God alone possesses true causal power. He asserts that human understanding is totally passive and relies on God for both sensory and intellectual perceptions. Critics have wondered what exactly...

Deleuze and the Genesis of Representation is a systematic study of three of Deleuze's central works: Difference and Repetition, The Logic of Sense and, with Guattari, Anti-Oedipus. Hughes shows how each of these three works develops the Husserlian problem of genetic constitution. After an innovative reading of Husserl's late work, Hughes turns to a detailed study of the conceptual structures of Deleuze's three books. He demonstrates that each book is surprisingly similar in its structure and that all three function as nearly identical accounts of the genesis of representation....

This important collection of more than twenty original essays by prominent Kant scholars covers the multiple aspects of Kant's teaching in relation to his published works.
With the Academy edition's continuing publication of Kant's lectures, the role of his lecturing activity has been drawing more and more deserved attention. Several of Kant's lectures on metaphysics, logic, ethics, anthropology, theology, and pedagogy have been translated into English, and important studies have appeared in many languages. But why study the lectures? When they are read in light of Kant's published...

Mit seiner Kritik der reinen Vernunft (1781) beansprucht Kant, die bisherige Metaphysik auf eine vollig neue Grundlage zu stellen. Im Zuge dessen ersetzt er den "stolzen Namen der Ontologie" durch die Analytik des reinen Verstandes. Trotz dieser negativen Bewertung der Ontologie als Grundlage der Metaphysik finden sich im Werk Kants Passagen, an denen er seine Transzendentalphilosophie mit der Ontologie gleichsetzt.

Rivero untersucht diese erstaunliche Gleichsetzung in entwicklungsgeschichtlicher Perspektive: In einem ersten Teil werden die Architektonik der reinen...

Friedrich Albert Lange: Geschichte des Materialismus und Kritik seiner Bedeutung in der Gegenwart

Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch

Berliner Ausgabe, 2013

Vollstandiger, durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger

Erstdruck: Iserlohn 1866. Hier nach der zweiten, veranderten Ausgabe, Leipzig 1873/75.

Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Friedrich Albert Lange: Geschichte des Materialismus und Kritik seiner Bedeutung in der Gegenwart. Herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Alfred Schmidt, Band 1 und 2, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1974.

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Das Werk von 1777 zahlt zu den bedeutendsten Veroffentlichungen der Philosophie der Spataufklarung. In insgesamt 14 umfangreichen Essays versucht Tetens die Grundprobleme der Aufklarungsphilosophie zu losen. Der Band bietet die erste vollstandige und kommentierte Ausgabe dieses opus magnum der empiristischen Spataufklarung seit der Erstpublikation.

Georg Friedrich Meier (1718-1777) gehorte zu den einflussreichsten Philosophen und Publizisten der europaischen Aufklarung, und zwar sowohl innerhalb aller Teilbereiche der Schulphilosophie als auch im Kontext literarischer und popularphilosophischer Diskurse. Mendelssohn, Lessing, Herder und Kant schatzten ihn, bislang fehlte aber eine Gesamtdarstellung von Meiers OEuvre. Diese Lucke schliet der Band.

Analysing the reception of contemporary French philosophy in architecture over the last four decades, Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy discusses the problematic nature of importing philosophical categories into architecture.

Focusing particularly on the philosophical notion of the Baroque in Gilles Deleuze, this study examines traditional interpretations of the concept in contemporary architecture theory, throwing up specific problems such as the aestheticization of building theory and practice. Identifying these and other issues, Nadir Lahiji...

Pushing back against the contemporary myth that freedom from oppression is freedom of choice, Frank Ruda resuscitates a fundamental lesson from the history of philosophical rationalism: a proper concept of freedom can arise only from a defense of absolute necessity, utter determinism, and predestination.

Abolishing Freedom demonstrates how the greatest philosophers of the rationalist tradition and even their theological predecessors Luther, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Freud defended not only freedom but also predestination and divineprovidence. By systematically investigating...