series: Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie

Published by De Gruyter

Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie

Edited by: Dominik Perler and Michael Quante

ISSN: 0344-8142

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Volumes

The series, founded in 1970, publishes works that combine philosophical-historical studies with a systematic approach or systematic studies with philosophical-historical reconstructions. It accepts monographs both in German and in English.

A condition for inclusion in the series is a positive peer review process. The series is open for open access publications.

Current editors are: Michael Quante (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) and Dominik Perler (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

Founding editors are: Erhard Scheibe (editor until 1991), Günther Patzig (until 1999) and Wolfgang Wieland (until 2003). From 1990 to 2007 the series was co-edited by Jürgen Mittelstraß and from 2005 to 2020 by Jens Halfwassen.

　

book: Aesthetic Conflict and Contradiction

Book 2023

Aesthetic Conflict and Contradiction

The Sublime in Kant and Kierkegaard

Samuel Cuff Snow

Volume 151 in this series

The central claim of this comparative study of Kant and Kierkegaard is that the aesthetic experience of the sublime is both autonomous and formative for extra-aesthetic ends. Aesthetic autonomy is thus inseparable from aesthetic heteronomy.

In Part I, through an examination of Kant’s Critique of Judgement and his essays on the French Revolution, the Kantian sublime is shown to conflict with our existing cognitive, moral and political frames of meaning, at the same time that the engagement of the aesthetic judge (Chapter 1) or the enthusiastic spectator (Chapter 2) with this conflict furthers our pursuit of cognitive, moral and political ends. The Kantian sublime is built on the autonomy of aesthetic judgement, which nevertheless has non-aesthetic value.

Part II argues that certain aesthetic and ethical-religious figures in Kierkegaard’s work can be shown to be transfigurations of the Kantian sublime, despite the absence of the term. Antigone and the silhouettes from Either/Or embody what I coin the tragic sublime and sublime grief. The God-man in Practice in Christianity is interpreted as a sublime image of contradiction. The figures are submitted to aesthetic representation, while their contradictory interior lives are unrepresentable. The Kierkegaardian sublime is built on a radical critique of aesthetic autonomy, whose failure serves the end of ethico-religious self-formation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111169996
ISBN:: 9783111169996
ISBN:: 9783111170145
ISBN:: 9783111169439
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Aesthetics
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Kant
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Der Streit um das Ding an sich

Book 2022

Der Streit um das Ding an sich

Systematische Analysen zur Rezeption des kantischen Idealismus 1781–1794

Marialena Karampatsou

Volume 150 in this series

Indem die Erstleser Kants die Debatte um die Rolle des Dings an sich im kantischen Idealismus anstießen, gaben sie den Ton für die Rezeption von Kants Philosophie an, wie sie die Fachdiskurse bis heute prägt. Die Studie bietet die erste umfassende Auseinandersetzung mit der frühen, vorfichteschen Kritik an Kants Idealismus.
Die bedeutendsten Einwände der ersten Leser der Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Feder, Garve, Jacobi, Pistorius, Eberhard, Schulze und Maimon) werden mit zentralen philosophischen Debatten – z.B. um Realismus und Skeptizismus – verknüpft und vor dem Hintergrund neuerer Kantforschung auf ihr kritisches Potenzial hin untersucht.
Die Studie trägt damit zu heutigen Debatten in der Kantforschung bei: Sie zeigt die Relevanz der Kritik der Erstleser für die Kantinterpretation unserer Zeit auf, um bestehende Tendenzen innerhalb der aktuellen Forschung teilweise kritisch zu hinterfragen. Ferner ist die Studie interessant für die Forschung zur nachkantischen Philosophie: Ein wichtiges Ergebnis besteht darin, verbreitete Klassifikationen bestimmter Kantleser und der damit einhergehenden traditionellen Interpretation ihrer Rolle in der Geschichte der klassischen deutschen Philosophie infrage zu stellen.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110732153
ISBN:: 9783110732153
ISBN:: 9783110732184
ISBN:: 9783110737271
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Epistemology
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Kant
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: What It Is to Exist

Book 2022

What It Is to Exist

The Contribution of Thomas Aquinas’s View to the Contemporary Debate

Patrick Zoll

Volume 149 in this series

One important task of metaphysics is to answer the question of what it is for an object to exist. The first part of this book offers a systematic reconstruction and critique of contemporary views on existence. The upshot of this part is that the contemporary debate has reached an impasse because none of the considered views is able to formulate a satisfactory answer to this fundamental metaphysical question.

The second part reconstructs Thomas Aquinas’s view on existence (esse) and argues that it contributes a new perspective which allows us to see why the contemporary debate has reached this impasse. It has come to this point because it has taken a premise for granted which Aquinas’s view rejects, namely, that the existence of an object consists in something’s having a property. A decisive contribution of Aquinas’s theory of esse is that it makes use of the ideas of metaphysical participation and composition. In this way, it can be explained how an object can have esse without being the case that esse is a property of it.

This book brings together a reconstruction from the history of philosophy with a systematic study on existence and is therefore relevant for scholars interested in contemporary or medieval theories of existence.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110979879
ISBN:: 9783110979879
ISBN:: 9783110980127
ISBN:: 9783110991307
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Medieval Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Transzendentale Argumente bei Hegel und Fichte

Book 2022

Transzendentale Argumente bei Hegel und Fichte

Das Problem objektiver Geltung und seine Auflösung im nachkantischen Idealismus

Simon Schüz

Volume 148 in this series

How is it possible to arrive at valid conclusions about a mind-independent world through reflection on the necessary conditions of experience and intentionality?

The present study develops this problem of objective validity with recourse to the contemporary debate on transcendental arguments. It thereby develops an argument-based approach to two paradigmatic texts of post-Kantian idealism: Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and Fichte’s Science of Knowledge 1804-II. It is shown that Hegel and Fichte try to dissolve the problem of objective validity by using a method of philosophical therapy which takes on the form of an ascent to absolute knowing.

The study presents a novel interpretation of Hegel’s Phenomenology, which shows it to have methodological affinities with the paradigm of geometrical construction, and of Fichte’s late Science of Knowledge, which reappraises the role of the conceptual for Fichte. Systematically, a skeptical revenge problem is developed: idealism as such is shown to be fraught with an internal tension between claims to objectivity and skepticism. It is this inner tension that motivates the reflective ascent of the transcendental approach.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110788716
ISBN:: 9783110788716
ISBN:: 9783110788808
ISBN:: 9783110788679
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: German Idealism
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Kant
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Begründung des Realen

Book Open Access 2021

Die Begründung des Realen

Hegels „Logik“ im Kontext der Realitätsdebatte um 1800

Claudia Wirsing

Volume 147 in this series

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Das Problem einer ausschließlich „idealistischen“ oder „realistischen“ Position ist es, dass sie die Bedingungen ihrer Analyse nur einseitig einfangen und nicht hinreichend begründen kann, weil sie das begriffliche und evaluative Theoriedesign ihrer Position immer schon voraussetzen muss, und damit in der Beantwortung ihrer Frage stets normativ Stellung bezieht. Diesem Desiderat einer Begründung möchte die vorliegende Studie abhelfen.

Die vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich mit den kategorialen Begriffen von Realität und Wirklichkeit innerhalb der historischen Diskussionsstadien um 1800. Die Autorin liefert dabei jenseits des Dualismus von Idealismus und Realismus eine Begründung des Realen innerhalb ihrer Vermittlung. Sie fragt danach, wie wir um diese Vermittlung wissen können, und erkundet anhand der Hegelschen Wesenslogik in kritischer Absetzung zu dessen Vorläufern (Kant, Jacobi, Fichte) die argumentative Basis dafür, welche kategorialen Grundbedingungen ein Begriff von Realität erfüllen muss: nämlich Realität immer schon als immanent verbunden mit einer bestimmten Art von fundamentaler Begrifflichkeit zu verstehen.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110730531
ISBN:: 9783110730531
ISBN:: 9783111270241
ISBN:: 9783110735376
ISBN:: 9783110730678
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Empiricism
Subject:: German Idealism
Subject:: Rationalism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Normativität als Metaphysik

Book 2020

Normativität als Metaphysik

Brandom und die Performanz der Philosophiegeschichte

Thomas Hanke

Volume 146 in this series

Since the turn of the century, the neo-pragmatist Robert Brandom has increasingly relied on positions from the history of philosophy to promote his anti-naturalist, metaphysical agenda. Using a detailed analysis, this study illustrates the strategy that he shares with Kant and Hegel. This provides the impetus to differentiate and elucidate multiple ways that philosophy takes account of its history.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110707526
ISBN:: 9783110707526
ISBN:: 9783110707472
ISBN:: 9783110707601
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy, other
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Pragmatism
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Hegel
Subject:: Kant
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Form of Truth

Book 2020

The Form of Truth

Hegel’s Philosophical Logic

Elena Ficara

Volume 145 in this series

This book is a consideration of Hegel’s view on logic and basic logical concepts such as truth, form, validity, and contradiction, and aims to assess this view’s relevance for contemporary philosophical logic. The literature on Hegel’s logic is fairly rich. The attention to contemporary philosophical logic places the present research closer to those works interested in the link between Hegel’s thought and analytical philosophy (Stekeler-Weithofer 1992 and 2019, Berto 2005, Rockmore 2005, Redding 2007, Nuzzo 2010 (ed.), Koch 2014, Brandom 2014, 1-15, Pippin 2016, Moyar 2017, Quante & Mooren 2018 among others). In this context, one particularity of this book consists in focusing on something that has been generally underrated in the literature: the idea that, for Hegel as well as for Aristotle and many other authors (including Frege), logic is the study of the forms of truth, i.e. the forms that our thought can (or ought to) assume in searching for truth. In this light, Hegel’s thinking about logic is a fundamental reference point for anyone interested in a philosophical foundation of logic.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110703719
ISBN:: 9783110703719
ISBN:: 9783110703658
ISBN:: 9783110703818
ISBN:: 9783110996821
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Logic
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Hegel
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Notwendigkeit empirischer Naturgesetze bei Kant

Book 2020

Die Notwendigkeit empirischer Naturgesetze bei Kant

Ansgar Seide

Volume 144 in this series

This study focuses on the status of empirical laws of nature in Immanuel Kant’s critical philosophy. It specifically addresses the resources of argument Kant applies in his process of assigning the status of necessity to laws of nature. In addition, it clarifies the kind of necessity thereby fulfilled.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110697209
ISBN:: 9783110697209
ISBN:: 9783110697247
ISBN:: 9783110697131
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Kant
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Urteil und Anschauung

Book 2021

Urteil und Anschauung

Kants metaphysische Deduktion der Kategorien

Till Hoeppner

Volume 143 in this series

This book develops a textually grounded reconstruction of Kant’s argument in the Metaphysical Deduction. The argument proceeds in three steps, developing, first, a concept of judgment on which to base the table of logical functions, next a concept of synthesis of intuition that explains the content of the categories, and finally a concept of the understanding on which the categories belong a priori to the same faculty through which we judge.

The investigation presented here is an argumentative reconstruction of Kant’s text. The text in question is the "Guiding Thread to the Discovery of all Pure Concepts of the Understanding" in both the 1781 (A) and 1787 (B) editions of the　Critique of Pure Reason (A64-83/B89-113). To illuminate Kant’s reflections in this chapter, the reconstruction also draws on passages from elsewhere in the Critique, from Kant’s writings after the Critique, as well as notes from his　Nachlass and student transcriptions of lectures he held subsequent to writing the Critique. Four passages, in particular, are of central importance: (i) the retrospective description of the task of the Metaphysical Deduction at B159, (ii) the retrospective description of the procedure of the "Guiding Thread" at A299/B355f., (iii) the section "On the A Priori Grounds for the Possibility of Experience" in the A-edition Transcendental Deduction of the Categories (A95-110), and (iv) §§15-21 in the B-edition Transcendental Deduction (B128-148).

The present interpretation of the Metaphysical Deduction thus emerges from a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the "Guiding Thread" that draws on related passages from the indicated portion of Kant’s corpus and, especially, on the aforementioned four passages from the Critique. Viewing these texts together and in a specific relation to one another suggests a reading which leaves little room for doubt. This sort of textually sensitive but charitable reconstruction helps to bring out the enduring force and interest of Kant’s philosophical position.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110557374
ISBN:: 9783110557374
ISBN:: 9783110556421
ISBN:: 9783110556278
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Logic
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Kant
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Zeit des Willens und das Ende der Metaphysik

Book 2020

Die Zeit des Willens und das Ende der Metaphysik

Heideggers Auseinandersetzung mit Nietzsche und Schelling

Jan Kerkmann

Volume 142 in this series

From 1936 to 1940, Heidegger took on Nietzsche’s philosophy in a number of Freiburg lectures. This study examines Heidegger’s reception of Nietzsche based on all accessible materials. It shows that Heidegger’s dialogue with Nietzsche is characterized by recursive interpretive patterns. Subsequently, it proposes a new evaluation of the Heideggerian perspective on the metaphysics of will.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110694253
ISBN:: 9783110694253
ISBN:: 9783110694116
ISBN:: 9783110694307
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Heidegger
Subject:: Nietzsche
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Kraft des Exempels

Book 2020

Die Kraft des Exempels

Eine kantische Perspektive auf das Problem der Supererogation

Katharina Naumann

Volume 141 in this series

A widespread phenomenon of our moral practice is that we judge extraordinary moral actions as morally valuable but not as morally required, that is to say, as superogatory. The focus of the study is the extent to which Kantian ethics can provide a systematically relevant perspective on this phenomenon, even though it makes no provision for a category of supererogation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110674729
ISBN:: 9783110674729
ISBN:: 9783110674705
ISBN:: 9783110674750
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Subject:: Meta-Ethics
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Kant
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Sinn und Begriff

Book 2019

Sinn und Begriff

Negativität bei Hegel und Heidegger

Lucian Ionel

Volume 140 in this series

What role does our conceptual capacity play in the constitution and articulation of meaning? The book pursues this question by bringing Hegel and Heidegger into conversation. To frame this debate, it articulates a theory of negativity shared both by Hegel and Heidegger according to which concepts are at once revealing and concealing. In other words, concepts render beings intelligible by making abstraction of the source of their intelligibility. But while Hegel holds that meaning is disclosed only through concepts, Heidegger claims that concepts are entrapped in a historical paradigm and cannot recover the source of meaning. The book critically engages with this claim by distinguishing between our conceptual capacity and a conceptual apparatus. Drawing on Hegel, it explains that while a given conceptual apparatus is as such oblivious of its sources, its assumptions can be revealed and overcome by conceptual articulation. Our conceptual capacity, even if dependent on a parochial apparatus, enables us to question the concepts we inherit. The book argues that the meanings constituting our world can be actualized and enriched only through the conceptual articulation of human experience.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110659801
ISBN:: 9783110659801
ISBN:: 9783110659221
ISBN:: 9783110658859
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Hegel
Subject:: Heidegger
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Sein, Logos und Veränderung

Book 2019

Sein, Logos und Veränderung

Eine systematische Untersuchung zu Aristoteles’ Metaphysik

Xin Liu

Volume 139 in this series

This work gives a holistic and systematic interpretation of Aristotle’s metaphysics as a doctrine of substance or principles, thereby overcoming the Islamic and Scholastic division between metaphysica generalis and metaphysica specialis. It also rediscovers the chiasmus as a key classificatory method and clearly distinguishes Aristotle’s analogy of proportionality from Aquinas’s analogy of attribution.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110664928
ISBN:: 9783110664928
ISBN:: 9783110663273
ISBN:: 9783110663495
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Aristoteles
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Der Magnetismus des Guten

Book 2018

Der Magnetismus des Guten

Historische und systematische Perspektiven des metanormativen Platonismus

Felix Timmermann

Volume 138 in this series

To achieve excellence is to approximate an ideal as closely as possible. This is the basic idea of metanormative Platonism. But what is an ideal? And what does it mean to approximate it? What aspects of our experience do ideals and their approximation explain? This book – the first systematic reconstruction of metanormative Platonism to consider both ancient and modern proponents – addresses these questions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110623871
ISBN:: 9783110623871
ISBN:: 9783110621181
ISBN:: 9783110620955
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Neoplatonism
Subject:: Platonism
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Platon
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Aufhellung des Judentums im Platonismus

Book 2019

Die Aufhellung des Judentums im Platonismus

Zu den jüdisch-platonischen Quellen des Deutschen Idealismus, dargestellt anhand von Hegels Auseinandersetzung mit Philon von Alexandria

Ze'ev Strauss

Volume 137 in this series

This study traces G. W. F. Hegel’s intellectual engagement with the Jewish Platonist Philo of Alexandria. In a historic-systematical investigation, Strauss elucidates the ambivalence of Hegel’s image of Philo. Hegel understood him as a transitional figure between Judaism and Christianity. At the same time, he saw Philo’s thought as an early form of Neo-Platonism in which the Biblical God encounters the metaphysical Logos of the Greeks for the first time.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110624632
ISBN:: 9783110624632
ISBN:: 9783110621877
ISBN:: 9783110621945
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Jewish Thought
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Hegel
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Das Selbstaufhebungsargument

Book 2018

Das Selbstaufhebungsargument

Der Relativismus in der gegenwärtigen philosophischen Debatte

Dorothee Schmitt

Volume 136 in this series

Self-refutation arguments are among the oldest and most prevalent forms of argument against relativism. This study examines their origins in Plato along with their modern forms vis-á-vis the different epistemological flavors of relativism, their systematic weak points, and their potential value in differentiating between coherent and incoherent variants of relativism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110584264
ISBN:: 9783110584264
ISBN:: 9783110582642
ISBN:: 9783110582888
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Epistemology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Aristoteles’ Konzeption der Zurechnung

Book 2018

Aristoteles’ Konzeption der Zurechnung

Béatrice Lienemann

Volume 135 in this series

The aim of this study is to show that Aristotle disposes of an original conception of moral accountability. Aristotle holds that for an agent to be ethically accountable for an action or state it is neither necessary nor sufficient that the action or state is voluntary. Acting on the basis of a decision is sufficient (but not necessary) for being ethically accountable for the action.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110517583
ISBN:: 9783110517583
ISBN:: 9783110516883
ISBN:: 9783110516753
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Authors
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Aristoteles
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Platon: Menon

Book 2018

Platon: Menon

Übersetzung und Kommentar

Theodor Ebert

Volume 134 in this series

This monograph offers a new translation of Plato’s Meno together with a philosophical commentary. The commentary highlights the logical analysis of the arguments, but stresses at the same time literary aspects which make it probable that this dialogue was written with a Sicilian audience in mind. Taking into account certain comical elements in the dialogue, this leads to a new interpretation of positions usually attributed to the Meno.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110577525
ISBN:: 9783110577525
ISBN:: 9783110685220
ISBN:: 9783110576269
ISBN:: 9783110576177
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Authors
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Platon
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Phänomenologie als Platonismus

Book 2017

Phänomenologie als Platonismus

Zu den Platonischen Wesensmomenten der Philosophie Edmund Husserls

Thomas Arnold

Volume 133 in this series

Husserl repeatedly invokes Plato as the founder of European philosophy, but never systematically elaborates phenomenology’s connections to Platonism. This study examines these connections, and shows that Husserl rightly views phenomenology as the ultimate inheritor of the original Platonic gift of philosophy. Many elements of phenomenology take on new meanings against the backdrop of their Platonic origins.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110528053
ISBN:: 9783110528053
ISBN:: 9783110527193
ISBN:: 9783110527186
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Phenomenology
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Husserl
Subject:: Platon
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Michael Psellos – Christliche Philosophie in Byzanz

Book 2017

Michael Psellos – Christliche Philosophie in Byzanz

Mittelalterliche Philosophie im Verhältnis zu Antike und Spätantike

Denis Walter

Volume 132 in this series

In subtle confrontations with the ideas of ancient and late ancient theology, ontology, and ethics, the great Byzantine intellectual Michael Psellos formulated an independent Christian philosophy. The first comprehensive monograph on the subject, this work takes a systematic approach while also considering previously uninterpreted texts, thus providing an important foundation for further research on Byzantine philosophy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110527339
ISBN:: 9783110527339
ISBN:: 9783110627084
ISBN:: 9783110526028
ISBN:: 9783110525977
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Classical Tradition and Reception
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Medieval Philosophy
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Hegels Begriff der Weltgeschichte

Book 2017

Hegels Begriff der Weltgeschichte

Eine wissenschaftstheoretische Studie

Tim Rojek

Volume 131 in this series

For the first time this volume reconstructs Hegel’s philosophy of history from the perspective of the philosophy of science (in a broad sense, i.e. including humanities). The volume focuses on the relationship between historiography and the philosophy of history. The analysis of this relationship provides the foundation for the reconstruction of the philosophy of history as a conceptual history of “freedom”.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110502343
ISBN:: 9783110502343
ISBN:: 9783110626964
ISBN:: 9783110501476
ISBN:: 9783110498684
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: History of Science
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Science
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Hegel
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Leibniz’ Metaphysik der Modalität

Book 2016

Leibniz’ Metaphysik der Modalität

Sebastian Bender

Volume 130 in this series

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s theory of modality takes a special place within early modern philosophy. Leibniz analyzes the notions of possibility and necessity in much greater detail than his contemporaries. Sebastian Bender reconstructs the metaphysical foundations of this conception of modality and shows how closely intertwined it is with Leibniz’s rationalism and theism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110454949
ISBN:: 9783110454949
ISBN:: 9783110453416
ISBN:: 9783110453911
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Leibniz
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Existenz des Spekulativen

Book 2016

Die Existenz des Spekulativen

Untersuchungen zur neuplatonischen Seelenlehre und zu Hegels Philosophie des subjektiven Geistes

Martin Loder

Volume 129 in this series

Today, the extraordinary significance of Neoplatonism to Hegel’s thought is beyond question. However, despite so many commonalities, no previous interpretation of Hegel’s philosophy of the subjective spirit has been based on Plotinus’ and Proclus’ doctrine of the soul. This book fills the gap in Hegel research by considering Hegel’s own interpretation of the role of the spirit in late ancient Neoplatonism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110488616
ISBN:: 9783110488616
ISBN:: 9783110496239
ISBN:: 9783110486940
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: German Idealism
Subject:: Neoplatonism
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Hegel
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Das Böse als Vollzug menschlicher Freiheit

Book 2016

Das Böse als Vollzug menschlicher Freiheit

Die Neuausrichtung idealistischer Systemphilosophie in Schellings Freiheitsschrift

Lisa Egloff

Volume 128 in this series

Evil is the core challenge in thinking about freedom. With keen historical awareness, this study reconstructs the problematic interrelation between freedom and necessity in German Idealism and illuminates Schelling’s systematic approach around the year 1809. This reinterpretation of Schelling’s treatise on freedom considers systematic and theological questions as well as the effective tradition of Platonism and Neo-Platonism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110475975
ISBN:: 9783110475975
ISBN:: 9783110474824
ISBN:: 9783110474886
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: German Idealism
Subject:: Neoplatonism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Anthropologie und Moral

Book 2016

Anthropologie und Moral

Affekte, Leidenschaften und Mitgefühl in Kants Ethik

Anna Wehofsits

Volume 127 in this series

Anna Wehofsits’s study on Kant’s moral anthropology examines the conditions for achieving moral action, and strives to expand our understanding of Kantian moral philosophy. According to Kant, building moral character is not limited to developing rational capacities but also includes developing emotional capacities, and responsibly managing and deliberately cultivating emotional dispositions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110456462
ISBN:: 9783110456462
ISBN:: 9783110455595
ISBN:: 9783110455533
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Kant
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Psychology
Subject:: Methods and Theory
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Metaphysik und Möglichkeitsbegriff bei Aristoteles und Nikolaus von Kues

Book 2015

Metaphysik und Möglichkeitsbegriff bei Aristoteles und Nikolaus von Kues

Eine historisch-systematische Untersuchung

Jens Maaßen

Volume 126 in this series

Metaphysics and possibility are fundamental concepts in philosophical thought. How are they related? Maaßen analyzes two paradigmatic metaphysicians in the history of philosophy and shows that in their arguments, Aristotle and Nicholas of Cusa use a differentiated semantics of possibility to resolve problems of substance, language, and thought.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110429855
ISBN:: 9783110438031
ISBN:: 9783110429855
ISBN:: 9783110429947
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Scholastic
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Aristoteles
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Eriugenas Hypertheologie

Book 2015

Eriugenas Hypertheologie

Veronika Limberger

Volume 125 in this series

Eriugena’s importance to negative theology is beyond question. In seeking a language for the inexpressible, drawing on Dionysus the Areopagite, he developed the concept of a negative-positive theology. This study analyzes Eriugena’s ‘hypertheology’ and also includes a new translation of key passages from the Periphyseon. Its intended audience includes philosophers and theologians as well as philologists.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110411553
ISBN:: 978-3-11-041148-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-041155-3
ISBN:: 9783110411614
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Medieval Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Neoplatonism
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Moore's Paradox

Book 2014

Moore's Paradox

A Critique of Representationalism

Ulla Schmid

Volume 124 in this series

Representationalism grasps the meaning and grammar of linguistic expressions in terms of reference; that is, as determined by the respective objects, concepts or states of affairs they are supposed to represent, and by the internal structure of the content they articulate.
As a consequence, the semantic and grammatical properties of linguistic expressions allegedly reflect the constitution of the objects they refer to. Questions concerning the meaning of particular linguistic expressions are supposed to be answerable by investigating the metaphysics of the corresponding phenomena. Accordingly, questions of the meaning of psychological concepts, are turned into questions of the nature of psychological states. Concerned with Moore‘s Paradox, representationalist approaches lead into an investigation of the state of affairs supposedly described by Moore-paradoxical assertions, and thus eventually into investigations concerning the metaphysics of belief.
This book argues that this strategy necessarily yields both a wrong solution to Moore‘s Paradox and an inadequate conception of the meaning of the expression I believe. Turning to the metaphysics of belief is of no use when it comes to understanding either the meaning of the expression 'I believe' or the logic of avowals of belief. Instead, it proposes to focus on the role they play in language, the ways in which they are used in practice.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110366495
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037103-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036649-5
ISBN:: 9783110392418
ISBN:: 9783110554687
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Epistemology
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Herrschaft und Recht bei Aristoteles

Book 2015

Herrschaft und Recht bei Aristoteles

Simon Weber

Volume 123 in this series

What does Aristotle regard as the conditions of a legitimate relationship between political rule and the law? The interpretation of Aristotelian politics in this study shows that the central political project of the modern age – namely, the grounding and implementation of the natural rights of the individual – can be conceptualized as the continuation and embodiment of Aristotle’s political philosophy rather than a radical break from it.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110375855
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037579-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037585-5
ISBN:: 9783110554571
ISBN:: 9783110387223
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Law
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Zurechnung bei Kant

Book 2014

Zurechnung bei Kant

Zum Zusammenhang von Person und Handlung in Kants praktischer Philosophie

Claudia Blöser

Volume 122 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110366990
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037044-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036699-0
ISBN:: 9783110392500
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Subject:: Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Kant
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Vernunft und Vorsehung

Book 2014

Vernunft und Vorsehung

Säkularisierte Eschatologie in Kants Religions- und Geschichtsphilosophie

Matthias Hoesch

Volume 121 in this series

This study examines the extent to which Kant’s ideas about history rely upon elements of Christian eschatology and the problems this creates. After a methodical review of the Löwith- Blumenberg debate, it goes on to interpret some of Kant’s texts that have been rarely considered in depth. The author puts these texts in a broader historical context, and thereby critically questions thinking about history in the modern age and the present.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110351361
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035125-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035136-1
ISBN:: 9783110387575
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Was Freiheit zu Recht macht

Book 2014

Was Freiheit zu Recht macht

Manuale des Politischen

Rainer Schäfer

Volume 120 in this series

This study develops a new concept of the political. As an outgrowth of freedom and law, the political bring together a priori and a posteriori aspects of individuals in interaction. Nomocracy and the liberal social contract are interpreted as an ideal system to regulate the coexistence of free beings. The systematic connection is made clear by reviewing classical proposals and critiques of the social contract from Hobbes through Hegel.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110366150
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037043-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036615-0
ISBN:: 9783110386301
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Der negative Selbstbezug des Absoluten

Book 2014

Der negative Selbstbezug des Absoluten

Untersuchungen zu Nicolaus Cusanus' Konzept des Nicht-Anderen

Max Rohstock

Volume 119 in this series

Nicolas of Cusa’s notion of God as “non aliud” is one of the most spectacular ideas in the history of metaphysics – the negative self-reference of the Absolute. In this study, Max Rohstock examines this concept historically and systematically. For the first time, he shows Johannes Scotus Eriugena was the true progenitor of the concept.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110359244
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035920-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035924-4
ISBN:: 9783110386769
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Medieval Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Denken über nichts - Intentionalität und Nicht-Existenz bei Husserl

Book 2014

Denken über nichts - Intentionalität und Nicht-Existenz bei Husserl

Christopher Erhard

Volume 118 in this series

Ever since Parmenides, one of philosophy’s riddles has been how we are able to direct our thoughts to non–being. Erhard uses the problem of non-existence as the starting point for an analysis of Husserl’s phenomenology. He examines Husserl’s interpretation of judgments about non–being as judgments made “under assumption” and his analysis of “free fantasy.” Erhard thus demonstrates that Husserl is compatible with today’s non–relational theories.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110345841
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034579-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034584-1
ISBN:: 9783110554533
ISBN:: 9783110377545
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Epistemology
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Hermeneutics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Personen und ihre Vergangenheit

Book 2013

Personen und ihre Vergangenheit

Gedächtnis, Erinnerung und personale Identität

Michael Jungert

Volume 117 in this series

Memory and recollection are central elements of a person’s being. Philosophical discussions about this subject typically leave open the question of precisely how memories constitute the identity of persons. The present study formulates a response to this question by distinguishing between various forms of memory and by drawing on contemporary psychological research that is focused on the concept of “biographical identity.”

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110333893
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033387-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033389-3
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Zwischen Einmischung und Nothilfe

Book 2013

Zwischen Einmischung und Nothilfe

Das Problem der "humanitären Intervention" aus ideengeschichtlicher Perspektive

Sebastian Laukötter

Volume 116 in this series

Is the use of military force to protect citizens of another nation justifiable? The present work examines this question from a historical and systematic perspective and reconstructs the arguments proposed for intervention across the history of political thought. The authors demonstrate that a nation’s sovereignty cannot be conceptualized as entirely independent from protecting the basic human rights of its citizens.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110335644
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033479-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033564-4
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Subject:: Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Law
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Hegel und die Geistmetaphysik des Aristoteles

Book 2013

Hegel und die Geistmetaphysik des Aristoteles

Tobias Dangel

Volume 115 in this series

Hegel held Aristotle in the greatest esteem, and he especially admired Aristotle’s metaphysics of mind, as is evident in Hegel’s notion of the absolute idea and that of the absolute mind. Dangel undertakes a first comprehensive and systematic historical analysis of the ways in which Hegel drew upon Aristotle. The study is focused on exploring the extent to which Hegel’s metaphysics of mind may have been prefigured in Aristotle’s works.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110313765
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031371-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031376-5
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Im Reich der Freiheit

Book 2013

Im Reich der Freiheit

Hegels Theorie autonomer Vernunft

Franz Knappik

Volume 114 in this series

According to Hegel, the capacity for freedom – understood as autonomous reason – is fundamental for thinking and knowing, and similarly, for wanting and acting. For Hegel, the “logical space of reason” constitutes a “realm of freedom.” Franz Knappik examines how Hegel developed these thoughts into a comprehensive theory that encompasses logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and practical rationality. In his discussions about the analytic approaches to interpretation and contemporary issues in philosophy, Knappik demonstrates both the originality of Hegel’s position and its relevance to contemporary thought.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110299212
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029892-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029921-2
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Epistemology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Praktische Lust

Book 2013

Praktische Lust

Kant über das Verhältnis von Fühlen, Begehren und praktischer Vernunft

Thomas Höwing

Volume 113 in this series

Kant ascribed an important role to pleasure in human action. This study provides a comprehensive interpretation of Kant’s concept of practical pleasure based on a detailed analysis of his theories of feelings, desire, and practical consideration. In this way, the author not only provides a new perspective on Kant’s action theory and moral philosophy, but also elucidates Kant’s contribution to resolving key problems in the theory of emotions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110286304
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028618-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028630-4
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Subject:: Philosophical Anthropology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Departures

Book 2013

Departures

At the Crossroads between Heidegger and Kant

Frank Schalow

Volume 112 in this series

In this study, the author shows new entry points to the dialogue between Kant and Heidegger. Schalow takes up the question: “Why should a philosopher like Kant, for whom language seemed to be almost inconsequential, become the crucial counter point for a thinker like Heidegger to develop a novel way to understand and express the most perennial of all philosophical concepts, namely, ‘being’ as such?” This approach allows for addressing issues which are normally relegated to the periphery of the exchange between Heidegger and Kant, including spatiality and embodiment, nature and art, religion and politics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110291384
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029135-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029138-4
ISBN:: 9783110481648
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Hermeneutics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Beyond Presence

Book 2012

Beyond Presence

The Late F.W.J. Schelling's Criticism of Metaphysics

Tyler Tritten

Volume 111 in this series

This book provides the English-speaking world with a comprehensive account of the still largely unknown work of Schelling’s philosophy of mythology and revelation. Its achievement, however, is not archival but philosophical, elucidating the relation between Schelling and onto-theology. It explains how Schelling dealt with the problem of nihilism and onto-theology well before Nietzsche and Heidegger, arguing that Schelling surpasses onto-theology or the philosophy of presence a century prior to Heidegger. Overall, the author provocatively suggests that Heidegger is perhaps Schelling’s genuine heir and by comprehensively interpreting Schelling’s multifaceted late lectures he analyzes issues as diverse as the Ancient relation between thinking and Being, the Medieval debate between voluntarism and intellectualism, the overcoming of modern subjectivism and German Idealism as well as many themes in contemporary philosophy.

The presentation is systematic rather than thematic, following Schelling’s ages of the world through the Past, Present and Future. The results are daring, departing from the half-century long canonical reading of the late Schelling since Walter Schulz. This book is valuable for Schelling-scholars, historians of philosophy and theologians alike.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614511557
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-211-0
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-155-7
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Sinnlichkeit und Verstand

Book 2012

Sinnlichkeit und Verstand

Zur transzendentallogischen Entfaltung des Gegenstandsbezugs bei Kant

Konrad Vorderobermeier

Volume 110 in this series

For Kant, sensibility and reason are the two cornerstones for all knowledge that is possible for us. The question of their mediation has occupied Kant researchers ever since the publication of the Critique of Pure Reason. By analyzing the most important theoretical elements of the critique of reason, the author offers a new approach for evaluating the argumentation of Kant’s transcendental logic.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110290455
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028690-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029045-5
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Epistemology
Subject:: Logic
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Ethische Wirklichkeit

Book 2012

Ethische Wirklichkeit

Objektivität und Vernünftigkeit der Ethik aus pragmatistischer Perspektive

Matthias Kiesselbach

Volume 109 in this series

Doubts regarding the intellectual honesty of everyday ethical discourse primarily relate to two of its fundamental assumptions. First: Ethical judgments are truth-apt. Second: Ethical claims are claims of reason. The author offers a new line of defense for these assumptions. The principal reference points in his argument are the language philosophy approaches of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Robert Brandom.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110286106
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028273-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028610-6
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Selbstachtung

Book 2012

Selbstachtung

Anspruch und normative Geltung affirmativer Selbstverhältnisse

Falk Bornmüller

Volume 108 in this series

Kant’s rationale for making self-respect an immediately clear precondition for action grounded in freedom is in need of thoroughgoing revision, since it fails to consider the phenomenological content and the actual origin of reflexive self-reference. On the basis of a history of the concept and a systematic reconstruction of affirmative relations to the self, the author proposes an alternative explanation. According to Bornmüller, moral insight should once again be properly regarded as emerging from a self-referential individual subject.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110270846
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027081-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027084-6
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Bewusstsein, Intentionalität und mentale Repräsentation

Book 2012

Bewusstsein, Intentionalität und mentale Repräsentation

Husserl und die analytische Philosophie des Geistes

Thomas Szanto

Volume 107 in this series

Until now, a systematic new evaluation of transcendental phenomenology that gives due attention to the analytic philosophy of mind has been lacking. With an emphasis on Husserl's anti-representationalist theory of the intentionality of consciousness, Thomas Szanto demonstrates phenomenology's descriptive and explanatory potential and presents it as a serious interlocutor for contemporary language philosophy and epistemology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110277357
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027723-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027735-7
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Epistemology
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Hermeneutics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Transzendentaler Antirealismus

Book 2011

Transzendentaler Antirealismus

Grundlagen einer Erkenntnistheorie ohne Wissenstranszendenz

Matthias Wille

Volume 106 in this series

Most modern epistemologies violate philosophical conditions of sense, as first formulated by Kant, because they assume a standpoint that transcends knowledge. This investigation works out in detail the sensible, linguistic, and meaning-theoretic foundations of a theory of knowledge that is committed to knowability. This approach succeeds not only in concisely reformulating and solving the problem of the external world but also in providing a fundamental, linguistic interpretation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110263879
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026386-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026387-9
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Epistemology
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Das Allgemeine bei Locke

Book 2011

Das Allgemeine bei Locke

Konstruktion und Umfeld

Rainer Specht

Volume 105 in this series

The issue of the status of the general has been a subject of philosophical debate since antiquity. John Locke’s treatment of this theme is not only of central importance for the understanding of his work but also for the corresponding discussion in modern times.

The author first examines the problem in its historical discussion context and then provides a detailed analysis of Locke’s position, whereby he interprets Locke’s approach as an extension of traditional conceptualism. In addition, the author presents an extensive literature review that provides valuable insights into the history of the research.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110268515
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026849-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026851-5
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Epistemology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: "Anerkennung" als Prinzip der Kritischen Theorie

Book 2011

"Anerkennung" als Prinzip der Kritischen Theorie

Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch

Volume 104 in this series

The author shows why implementing the project of a critical social theory in the tradition of the Frankfurt School based on recognition theory can yield promising results. In this context, the category of recognition is of special value because by using recognition theory, social relationships can be both analyzed and criticized. This is shown in the exemplary interpretation of classical texts (Hegel, Marx, Habermas and others).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110255676
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025566-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025567-6
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Subject:: Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Philosophie Marc Aurels

Book 2011

Die Philosophie Marc Aurels

Band 1: Textform - Stilmerkmale - Selbstdialog. Band 2: Themen - Begriffe - Argumente

Marcel van Ackeren

Volume 103 in this series

The two volumes of this work provide the first comprehensive interpretation of the philosophy of Marcus Aurelius. The central thesis is that a particular combination of form and content is characteristic of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. He wrote the earliest extant self-dialogue, whereby the composition of the mainly contemplative text can at the same time be a kind of Stoic philosophical practice.

Volume 1 analyses general characteristics of form and their philosophical significance.

Volume 2 analyses the themes, terms and arguments in analogy to the Stoic division of the philosophy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110255560
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025542-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025556-0
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Verantwortung im Diskurs

Book 2011

Verantwortung im Diskurs

Grundlinien einer rekonstruktiv-hermeneutischen Konzeption moralischer Verantwortung im Anschluss an Hans Jonas, Karl-Otto Apel und Emmanuel Lévinas

Eva Buddeberg

Volume 102 in this series

The present study investigates three questions: 1.) What is responsibility? 2.) How can responsibility be founded? 3.) And how can one act responsibly? Responsibility is interpreted as a practice of providing answers and justification, which constitutes the core of the moral relationship to other people. The work centers on the thesis that people recognize each other and thereby realize that they are responsible for the other person, i.e. that they owe answers and good reasons to others who are affected by their actions. Responsibility as a key moral category thus does not require any external foundation, but rather is itself the ultimate ground for all justification.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110251456
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025146-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025145-6
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Subject:: Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Hermeneutics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Ich und die anderen

Book 2011

Ich und die anderen

Zu den intersubjektiven Bedingungen von Selbstbewusstsein

Andrea Lailach-Hennrich

Volume 101 in this series

Whoever has thoughts, feelings, perceptions, wishes or impressions also knows that he himself has these states. This assumption has a long history in philosophical discussion of self-consciousness. But what conditions must be fulfilled for such knowledge to be possible? This book argues that self-consciousness is only possible under conditions of intersubjectivity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110228410
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022840-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022841-0
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Epistemology
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Subject:: Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Theorie des Guten in Aristoteles' "Nikomachischer Ethik"

Book 2010

Die Theorie des Guten in Aristoteles' "Nikomachischer Ethik"

Philipp Brüllmann

Volume 100 in this series

This book offers a new interpretation of the theory of the good in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. In a careful reading focusing particularly on the first chapters, the author argues that Aristotle has a more complex relationship to a teleological conception of the good than is often assumed. Understanding the subtleties of Aristotle’s attitude on this point can help solve some difficult interpretative issues. Moreover, it can open up a new perspective on the project Aristotle is pursuing in his ethics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110227871
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022786-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022787-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Finalursachen in der frühen Neuzeit

Book 2010

Finalursachen in der frühen Neuzeit

Eine Untersuchung der Transformation teleologischer Erklärungen

Stephan Schmid

Volume 99 in this series

By reconstructing the teleological conceptions of Thomas Aquinas, Suárez, Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, the author argues against the common view that mechanical philosophers in the Early Modern Period rejected natural teleology because of its association with an Aristotelian picture of the world. First, many thinkers in the Early Modern Period did not reject teleological explanations for natural phenomena. Second, many scholastic thinkers already believed that pure natural teleology was problematic because they held that authentic teleological explanations are only possible when goals can be recognized.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110246667
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024665-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024666-7
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Existence of God

Book 2010

The Existence of God

An Exposition and Application of Fregean Meta-Ontology

Stig Borsen Hansen

Volume 98 in this series

This book explores two questions that are integral to the question of the existence of God. The first question concerns the meaning of “existence” and the second concerns the meaning of “God”. Regarding the first question, this book motivates, presents and defends the meta-ontology found in Gottlob Frege’s writings and defended by Michael Dummett, Crispin Wright and Bob Hale. Frege’s approach to questions of existence has mainly found use in connection with abstract objects such as numbers. This is one of the first studies to systematically present Fregean meta-ontology and apply it to theology. Frege’s meta-ontology is informed by his context principle. According to this, logico-syntactic notions such as “singular term” and “predicate” are pivotal to questions of what exists. These notions serve to throw light on the second question. Through thorough engagement with Old as well and New Testament texts, the book shows how Frege’s logico-syntactic notions are of crucial importance when seeking to understand the meaning and use of “God”. To complete the defence of Fregean meta-ontology, the book concludes by pointing to important differences between the otherwise closely associated concepts of an object found in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Frege’s writings.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110245363
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024535-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024536-3
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Wahrnehmung und Wissen bei Aristoteles

Book 2010

Wahrnehmung und Wissen bei Aristoteles

Zur epistemologischen Funktion der Wahrnehmung

Stephan Herzberg

Volume 97 in this series

Aristotle emphasizes the central role of perception for knowledge acquisition in many of his writings. But how should these programmatic declarations be worked into an overall interpretation? Does perception provide the foundation on which all our knowledge can be grounded? Or does perception merely have the function of providing the intellect with elementary information? This study precisely works out which role perception plays in Aristotle's theory of knowledge acquisition. It shows that Aristotle defends a position that presents an interesting alternative to common views in the contemporary debate regarding the foundation of knowledge.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110212372
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021236-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021237-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Epistemology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Lockes Sprachkonzeption

Book 2010

Lockes Sprachkonzeption

Martin Lenz

Volume 96 in this series

What constitutes the meaning of a linguistic expression: the mental states of the language user or external factors? Locke appears to assume the simple thesis that words primarily signify the ideas in the mind of the speaker and thereby to commit himself to an untenable mentalism. The author argues against this widely-held view by providing a comprehensive historical and systematic case that Locke is better described as a social externalist, i.e. someone for whom the linguistic community plays an essential role in fixing meaning.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110228281
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022827-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022828-1
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Epistemology
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Homo agens

Book 2010

Homo agens

Studien zur Genese und Struktur frühhumanistischer Moralphilosophie

Sabrina Ebbersmeyer

Volume 95 in this series

The author reconstructs the development and particular structure of early humanist moral philosophy. The humanists overcame scholastic philosophy through the development of a new style of thought. Not only did they develop solutions to the philosophical problems important in their time, but they also provided answers to ethical questions that remained relevant in the modern period.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110225778
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022576-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022577-8
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Medieval Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Aristotle and Plotinus on Memory

Book 2009

Aristotle and Plotinus on Memory

Richard A.H. King

Volume 94 in this series

Two treatises on memory which have come down to us from antiquity are Aristotle’s “On memory and recollection” and Plotinus’ “On perception and memory” (IV 6); the latter also wrote at length about memory in his “Problems connected with the soul” (IV 3-4, esp. 3.25-4.6). In both authors memory is treated as a ‘modest’ faculty: both authors assume the existence of a persistent subject to whom memory belongs; and basic cognitive capacities are assumed on which memory depends. In particular, both theories use phantasia (representation) to explain memory.
Aristotle takes representations to be changes in concrete living things which arise from actual perception. To be connected to the original perception the representation has to be taken as a (kind of) copy of the original experience ‑ this is the way Aristotle defines memory at the end of his investigation.
Plotinus does not define memory: he is concerned with the question of what remembers. This is of course the soul, which goes through different stages of incarnation and disincarnation. Since the disembodied soul can remember, so he does not have Aristotle’s resources for explaining the continued presence of representations as changes in the concrete thing. Instead, he thinks that when acquiring a memory we acquire a capacity in respect of the object of the memory, namely to make it present at a later time.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214635
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021462-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021463-5
ISBN:: 9783110481556
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Natur des Schlechten bei Proklos

Book 2009

Die Natur des Schlechten bei Proklos

Eine Platoninterpretation und ihre Rezeption durch Dionysios Areopagites

Nestor Kavvadas

Volume 93 in this series

This book is the first systematic study of Neo-Platonist philosopher Proclus’ theory of the bad. Examining Proclus’ overall system demonstrates that his critique of Plotinus’ attribution of all ill to the material is cogent. Moreover, a comparison between Proclus and Plato shows that the Proclus’ theory of the ethical bad can be plausibly construed as an interpretation of Plato’s theory of action. Finally, examining the similarities between Dionysius Areopagita’s theory of the bad and Proclus’ preceding theory allows one to discern which elements of Dionysius’ view are of his own creation and which are borrowed from his predecessors.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110212310
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021230-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021231-0
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Begründen und Rechtfertigen

Book 2009

Begründen und Rechtfertigen

Eine Untersuchung zum Verhältnis zwischen rationalen Erfordernissen und prävalenten Handlungsgründen

Konstantin Pollok

Volume 92 in this series

This book gives an account of the relationship between rational requirements and overriding reasons for action. The author argues that whereas the former are governed by a standard of intra-personal coherence of attitudes, the latter ask for some sort of moral reasoning in order to meet the standard of inter-personal coherence of attitudes. In the former case, we essentially give reasons for action to ourselves (begründen), in the latter, a justification is owed to others (rechtfertigen). In contrast to non-detachable practical inferences involved in instrumental reasoning, some principle equivalent to Kant’s categorical imperative is needed to buttress the premise of practical inferences with the conclusion to be detached.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216455
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021713-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021645-5
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Subject:: Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Nature of the Self

Book 2009

The Nature of the Self

Recognition in the Form of Right and Morality

Paul Gulian Cobben

Volume 91 in this series

In the contemporary (practical) philosophy, recognition is one of the central concepts. Humans are thematized as individuals who recognize one another as moral and legal persons. The central problem of the globalized, multicultural societies is how to harmonize the legal persons (who are free and equal) with moral persons (who may have their unique identity). In The Nature of the Self the thesis is elaborated that, in the contemporary discussion, a central dimension of recognition is lacking. All forms of moral and legal recognition presuppose the recognition at a more fundamental level: the recognition of the body by the mind.
The systematic development of this relation can be performed with the help of a critical reconstruction of Hegel ’s project in the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Philosophy of Right.
This reconstruction results in a differentiated concept of the self: in three forms of the self (corresponding with three forms of recognition) and their institutional embodiment. This concept of the self not only competes with the position of Jürgen Habermas and Axel Honneth (as it is explicitly elaborated), but also with the one of John Rawls.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110219883
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021987-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021988-3
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Person sein und Geschichten erzählen

Book 2009

Person sein und Geschichten erzählen

Eine Studie über personale Autonomie und narrative Gründe

Tim Henning

Volume 90 in this series

People tell a story about their lives ‑ a thesis like this is popular in philosophy, cognitive psychology, and cultural studies. However, there has been no detailed argument for this thesis nor even an adaquate theory of narrative language. The present book offers to correct this. It is additionally an independent contribution to the theory of personal autonomy and an analysis of the concept of personality. Biographical stories articulate special practical reasons, and persons are autonomous beings in that they are receptive to these reasons.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110210200
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020569-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021020-0
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Subject:: Philosophy of Culture
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Self and World

Book 2008

Self and World

From Analytic Philosophy to Phenomenology

Bruin Carleton Christensen

Volume 89 in this series

This book draws upon the phenomenological tradition of Husserl and Heidegger in order to provide an alternative elaboration of John McDowell’s thesis that in order to understand how self-conscious subjectivity relates to the world, perception must be understood as a genuine unity of spontaneity ('concept’) and receptivity ('intuition’). This alternative elaboration permits clarification of McDowell’s critique of Donald Davidson and development of an alternative conception of perceptual experience giving clear sense to McDowell’s claim that self-conscious subjectivity is so inherently in touch with its world that scepticism about the latter must be incoherent. It also permits development of a more accurate, historically oriented critique of the metaphysics constraining one to construe perceptual experience in ways which misrepresent how self-conscious subjectivity bears upon the world. It shows that many of McDowell’s meta-philosophical views are implicitly Husserlian and that had McDowell developed them further, he would have avoided the paradoxical meta-philosophy he adopts from Wittgenstein. In conclusion, it intimates the central weakness in Husserl’s position which takes one from Husserl to Heidegger. The book is written in terms accessible to analytic philosophers and will thus enable them to see the central differences between analytic and phenomenological approaches to intentionality and self-consciousness.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110212174
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020401-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021217-4
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Epistemology
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Hermeneutics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Regel und Witz

Book 2008

Regel und Witz

Wittgensteinsche Perspektiven auf Mathematik, Sprache und Moral

Timo-Peter Ertz

Volume 88 in this series

Over the past few decades, the reception of Wittgenstein’s work has focused primarily on the central role that rules play in constituting a practice. Wittgenstein himself, however, always emphasises that a practice not only has rules, but also a “Witz” (i.e., a point). He even maintains that, “the problem of philosophy is the problem of Witz.” Despite Wittgenstein’s insistance on this matter, no systematic study has yet done full justice to the significance of Witz in Wittgenstein’s philosophy. By considering both the role of rules and Witz, the present study casts a new light on mathematics, language, and morals.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110213997
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020855-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021399-7
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Subject:: Philosophy of Science
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Heideggers Wahrheiten

Book 2008

Heideggers Wahrheiten

Wahrheit, Referenz und Personalität in "Sein und Zeit"

Christoph Martel

Volume 87 in this series

A statement is true, when what is said is actually the case. Heidegger is often accused of wanting to undermine this triviality as well as criteria of rational thinking and speaking along with it. This study however points to a reevaluation of the ideas in Being and Time. Heidegger’s innovation consists in the his pluralizing of the concept of truth: on the one hand, he reconstructs the familiar concept of truth as factually true sentences, while on the other, he reserves a totally unique conception of truth for the evaluation of philosophical approaches.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211894
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020294-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021189-4
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Hermeneutics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Strong Evaluation without Moral Sources

Book 2008

Strong Evaluation without Moral Sources

On Charles Taylor's Philosophical Anthropology and Ethics

Arto Laitinen

Volume 86 in this series

Charles Taylor (1931- ) is one of the leading living philosophers. This is the first extended study on the key notions of his views in philosophical anthropology and ethical theory. Firstly, Laitinen clarifies, qualifies and defends Taylor's thesis that transcendental arguments show that personal understandings concerning ethical and other values (so called "strong evaluation") is necessary, in different ways, for human agency, selfhood, identity and personhood. Secondly, Laitinen defends and develops in various ways Taylor's value realism. Finally, the book criticizes Taylor's view that it is necessary to identify and locate a constitutive source of value, such as God, Nature or Human Reason. Taylor relies heavily on this claim in his accounts of moral life, modern identity and, most recently, secularisation. Laitinen argues that the whole notion of constitutive moral source should be dropped – Taylor's views concerning strong evaluation and value realism are distorted by the question of constitutive "moral sources".

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211900
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020404-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021190-0
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Subject:: Philosophical Anthropology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Selbstbewusstsein in der Spätantike

Book 2008

Selbstbewusstsein in der Spätantike

Die neuplatonischen Kommentare zu Aristoteles’ "De anima"

Matthias Perkams

Volume 85 in this series

The three ancient commentaries on Aristotle's On the Soul (De anima) are interesting because the commentators, as neo-Platonists, understand the soul completely differently than Aristotle. For them, the soul is the inseperable life principle of the body, a spiritual entity. In response to this challenge, the commentator Priscian (ca. 530 AD) develops the most detailed antique theory of human self-consciousness, which is reconstructed here for the first time.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110210484
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020492-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021048-4
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Medieval Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Naturzustandstheorie des Thomas Hobbes

Book 2008

Die Naturzustandstheorie des Thomas Hobbes

Eine vergleichende Analyse von 'The Elements of Law', 'De Cive' und den englischen und lateinischen Fassungen des 'Leviathan'

Daniel Eggers

Volume 84 in this series

The goal of this book is to compare the various versions of Thomas Hobbes' famous and influential theory of the state of nature, and to emphasize their differences. This should provide a better understanding of the development of Hobbes' philosophy as well as dissolve numerous longstanding debates within Hobbes research.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110209983
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020314-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020998-3
Subject:: Law
Subject:: History, Philosophy and Sociology of Law
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Subject:: Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Gut des Menschen

Book 2011

Gut des Menschen

Untersuchungen zur Problematik und Entwicklung der Glücksethik bei Aristoteles und in der Tradition des Peripatos

Jan Szaif

Volume 83 in this series

This study analyses the theoretical connections between the conception of happiness, the theory of the good, and an ethical-practical conception of human nature in Aristotle’s Ethics and his late-Hellenistic followers. The further development of Aristotelian views in the late Hellenistic context is a long-neglected field of research.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216912
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019307-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021691-2
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Theorie der praktischen Freiheit

Book 2007

Theorie der praktischen Freiheit

Christoph Binkelmann

Volume 82 in this series

This study offers a detailed systematic comparison of Fichte’s and Hegel’s philosophies with regard to their conceptions of freedom. It explains and compares the place of practical freedom within the two thinkers’ overarching systems of ethical, legal, and political philosophy. In the process, it shows not only Hegel’s debt to Fichte but also the essential difference between understanding freedom as origin as opposed to result.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110204001
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020098-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020400-1
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Subject:: Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Instabilität in Natur und Wissenschaft

Book 2008

Instabilität in Natur und Wissenschaft

Eine Wissenschaftsphilosophie der nachmodernen Physik

Jan Cornelius Schmidt

Volume 81 in this series

Nature is not only stable and static but also unstable and dynamical ‑ this has been shown by physics during the last 40 years. Today, instabilities are regarded as productive and creative sources of change, pattern formation, and growth. They constitute the nomological nucleus of self-organization, chaos and complexity, time's arrow and chance.

This change in understanding nature has also modified sciences. Physics has traditionally limited its scope to stability. Currently, it is expanding and renewing itself: a late-modern physics is emerging, and discloses rich interdisciplinary perspectives for the future of mathematical sciences.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110209693
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019565-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020969-3
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Science
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Philosophie der Epochenschwelle

Book 2008

Philosophie der Epochenschwelle

Augustin zwischen Antike und Mittelalter

Peter Seele

Volume 80 in this series

What had to happen so that the Middle Ages could come to pass? This book traces the transition from antiquity to the medieval period through the spiritual development of Augustine. The philosopher and rhetorician’s change to priest, bishop, and, finally, church father gives a face and vivid story of lived philosophy to the decline of roman antiquity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110209686
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019475-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020968-6
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Medieval Philosophy
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Streben und Bewegen

Book 2008

Streben und Bewegen

Aristoteles' Theorie der animalischen Ortsbewegung

Klaus Corcilius

Volume 79 in this series

How do animals make themselves move? Unlike most modern theories, Aristotle answers this question through a general theory of animal movement valid for both humans and animals. This book interprets this theory and analyses its fundamental concepts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110209969
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019454-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020996-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Philosophy of Science
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Aristoteles
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Der Begriff des Skeptizismus

Book 2007

Der Begriff des Skeptizismus

Seine systematischen Formen, die pyrrhonische Skepsis und Hegels Herausforderung

Dietmar H. Heidemann

Volume 78 in this series

Must we acknowledge scepticism as an uncontrollable threat to our claims to knowledge? Using the differences of its systematic forms in theoretical and practical philosophy, the author makes an argument for the alternative strategy of integrative antiscepticism which diagnoses philosophical doubt as an indispensable component of human rationality and thus attempts to control it. The investigation is based on the concrete confrontation of pyrrhonic scepticism with Hegel.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110204278
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018894-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020427-8
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Subject:: Epistemology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Gottmenschliche Einheit bei Hegel

Book 2007

Gottmenschliche Einheit bei Hegel

Eine logische und theologische Untersuchung

Martin Wendte

Volume 77 in this series

Christianity says that Jesus Christ was both true man and true god. But how can this exactly be thought? This book provides a detailed account of how Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, one of the most influential and interesting thinkers of modernity, addressed this question. The author then assesses Hegel's answer from both theological and philosophical perspectives and goes on to sketch his own solution. Finally, he investigates the way contemporary theology both explicitly and implicitly deals with Hegel.

Winner of the 2008 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110921267
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019531-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092126-7
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Modern Christian Thinkers and Philosophers of Religion
Subject:: Enlightenment and German Idealism
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Systematic Theology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Platons Begründung der Seele im absoluten Denken

Book 2007

Platons Begründung der Seele im absoluten Denken

Philipp Florian Finck

Volume 76 in this series

What are Platonic ideas? What actual necessity is there for the supposition of such entities? What is their relation to the human soul? These questions form the core of this book. First, the Theory of Ideas is developed. Then, questions are posed as to how knowledge of ideas is possible and what meaning such ideas have practically in our lives. Then a unified concept of the soul is developed on the basis of the theoretical and practical aspects of Plato's philosophy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110935059
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019563-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093505-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Epistemology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Freiheit und Determinismus

Book 2008

Freiheit und Determinismus

Ein philosophischer Kommentar zu Ciceros Schrift De fato

Magnus Schallenberg

Volume 75 in this series

The book contains a comprehensive commentary on Cicero's work De fato. The introductory section deals with fundamental questions from an historical and philological perspective. The main section presents a running commentary on the text. Here, the author explains the various proposals presented by Cicero of how the Hellenistic schools intended to resolve the compatibility of liberty and determinism, and presents and evaluates them from a modern standpoint.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211603
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018940-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021160-3
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die anthropologische Differenz

Book 2007

Die anthropologische Differenz

Der Geist der Tiere in der frühen Neuzeit bei Montaigne, Descartes und Hume

Markus Wild

Volume 74 in this series

The Anthropological Difference deals with the animal mind in early modern philosophy and the problem of the anthropological difference between humans and animals. Starting from Montaigne’s defence of animal reason and proceeding via Descartes’ rejection of an animal soul to Hume’s naturalistic viewpoint of our mind, our occupation with animals is shown to be an occupation with ourselves.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110202878
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018945-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020287-8
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Feyerabend's Philosophy

Book 2006

Feyerabend's Philosophy

Eric Oberheim

Volume 73 in this series

Paul Feyerabend ranks among the most exciting and influential philosophers of science of the twentieth century. This reconstruction of his developing ideas combines historical and systematic considerations.
Part I examines the three main influences on Feyerabend’s philosophical development: Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, Popper critical rationalism and Ehrenhaft’s experimental effects.
Part II focuses on Feyerabend’s development and use of the notion of incommensurability at the heart of his philosophical critiques, and investigates his relation to realism. Feyerabend initially developed the notion of incommensurability from ideas he found in Duhem. He used the notion of incommensurability to attack many different forms of conceptual conservativism in philosophy and the natural sciences. He argued against many views on the grounds that that they would constrain the freedom necessary to develop alternative points of view, and thereby hinder scientific advance. Contrary to widespread opinion, he was never a scientific realist.
Part III reconstructs Feyerabend’s pluralistic conception of knowledge in the context of his pluralistic philosophical method. Feyerabend was a philosophical pluralist, who practiced pluralism in pursuit of progress.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110891768
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018907-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089176-8
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Wille und Gegenstand

Book 2006

Wille und Gegenstand

Die idealistische Kritik der kantischen Besitzlehre

Christian Müller

Volume 72 in this series

Hegel’s criticism of Kant’s practical philosophy has been discussed in the history of reception mostly by means of the terms “morality and morals.” In contrast, what kind of impact this criticism has had on the categories of the metaphysics of law has hardly been studied. The book pursues this question and discusses Kant’s concept of possession in light of Hegel’s criticism of Kant.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110909944
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019049-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090994-4
Subject:: Law
Subject:: History, Philosophy and Sociology of Law
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Epistemology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Der Mensch im Mythos

Book 2006

Der Mensch im Mythos

Untersuchungen über Ontotheologie, Anthropologie und Selbstbewußtseinsgeschichte in Schellings "Philosophie der Mythologie"

Markus Gabriel

Volume 71 in this series

In his late philosophy, Schelling develops a new type of philosophy which enters into competition with Hegel's metaphysics. With this, he not only attacks Hegel on the basis of his fundamental theoretical assumptions, but also attempts to outdo him with a new concept of religion. The study examines this, taking at its starting point Schelling's "Philosophy of Mythology".

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110927917
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019036-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092791-7
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Einheit des Individuums

Book 2006

Die Einheit des Individuums

Eine Studie zur Ontologie der Einzeldinge

Friedemann Buddensiek

Volume 70 in this series

Single creatures are usually regarded as individuals possessing unity over time and having the capacity for change. However, how can they possess unity if they change? This ontological question has been discussed since Antiquity. Friedemann Buddensiek responds to it with the thesis that individuals are functional structures. The parts of such a – possibly changing – structure are what forms the structure and contributes to its independence through the interaction and co-operation with other parts. The unity of the individual lies in the coherence of the structure.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110901313
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018852-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090131-3
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Determinate World

Book 2009

The Determinate World

Kant and Helmholtz on the Physical Meaning of Geometry

David J. Hyder

Volume 69 in this series

This book offers a new interpretation of Hermann von Helmholtz’s work on the epistemology of geometry. A detailed analysis of the philosophical arguments of Helmholtz’s Erhaltung der Kraft shows that he took physical theories to be constrained by a regulative ideal. They must render nature “completely comprehensible”, which implies that all physical magnitudes must be relations among empirically given phenomena. This conviction eventually forced Helmholtz to explain how geometry itself could be so construed. Hyder shows how Helmholtz answered this question by drawing on the theory of magnitudes developed in his research on the colour-space. He argues against the dominant interpretation of Helmholtz’s work by suggesting that for the latter, it is less the inductive character of geometry that makes it empirical, and rather the regulative requirement that the system of natural science be empirically closed.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110217209
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018391-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021720-9
ISBN:: 9783110481570
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Science
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Natur, Technik, Geist

Book 2005

Natur, Technik, Geist

Kontexte der Natur nach Aristoteles und Descartes in lebensweltlicher und subjektiver Erfahrung

Gregor Schiemann

Volume 68 in this series

Gregor Schiemann defends the relevance of Aristotle's and Descartes' concept of nature, which define nature in contrast to the non-natural. These traditional concepts however prove to be valid only within limited contexts.

In the first part of his book, the author demonstrates that both Aristotle's view of nature as a counterpart to technology in the "life-world" and Descartes' dualism of nature and mind with respect to our own experience of consciousness have remained guiding principles. Using Aristotle's doctrine of the soul and Descartes' mechanism as examples, Schiemann then shows that there is cross-fertilisation between these conceptual pairs. This natural-philosophical and epistemological study combines elements of analytical philosophy with approaches from phenomenology. It aims to contribute to a plural understanding of nature, which abandons claims to universal validity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110204742
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018053-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020474-2
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Science
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Konstruktion des Endlichen

Book 2005

Die Konstruktion des Endlichen

Schleiermachers Philosophie der Wechselwirkung

Sarah Schmidt

Volume 67 in this series

Sarah Schmidt's systematic interpretation of Schleiermacher's philosophical work focuses on his concept of "mutual determination". This is where his answer is to be found to the question of a possible orientation in a world of the finite. This particular focus underlines Schleiermacher's relevance and proves to be particularly fruitful in emphasising the unity of his philosophical oeuvre, which has received little attention to date. The occupation with Schleiermacher's philosophy of mutual determination proceeds in four systematic steps, each of which turns to a particular text corpus - the early Berlin writings, the lectures on dialectics, the lectures on hermeneutics and critique, and finally the lectures on philosophical ethics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110918274
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018343-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091827-4
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Why Does History Matter to Philosophy and the Sciences?

Book 2005

Why Does History Matter to Philosophy and the Sciences?

Selected Essays

Lorenz Krüger, Thomas Sturm, Wolfgang Carl, Lorraine Daston

Volume 66 in this series

What are the relationships between philosophy and the history of philosophy, the history of science and the philosophy of science?

This selection of essays by Lorenz Krüger (1932-1994) presents exemplary studies on the philosophy of John Locke and Immanuel Kant, on the history of physics and on the scope and limitations of scientific explanation, and a realistic understanding of science and truth. In his treatment of leading currents in 20th century philosophy, Krüger presents new and original arguments for a deeper understanding of the continuity and dynamics of the development of scientific theory. These result in significant consequences for the claim of the sciences that they understand reality in a rational manner. The case studies are complemented by fundamental thoughts on the relationship between philosophy, science, and their common history.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110927672
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018042-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092767-2
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Science
Subject:: Philosophy of Culture
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Intentionalität aus semiotischer Sicht

Book 2004

Intentionalität aus semiotischer Sicht

Peirceanische Perspektiven

Stefan Kappner

Volume 65 in this series

In the present-day philosophy of mind, the abilities to reflect and to relate thinking to reality are subsumed under the heading of "intentionality". After an introduction to the questions and difficulties of the most relevant theories of intentionality, Stefan Kappner presents Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotic theory. He uses the semiotic concepts developed to gain systematic access to the skills of intentionality - by presenting a novel understanding of them as skills of interpreting signs. Taking constructive issue with present-day attempts at naturalisation, in particular with teleosemantics, Kappner constructs a theory of intentionality points up its biological roots, without reducing it to these.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110910865
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018288-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091086-5
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Kant und die Bewußtseinstheorien des 18. Jahrhunderts

Book 2005

Kant und die Bewußtseinstheorien des 18. Jahrhunderts

Falk Wunderlich

Volume 64 in this series

Falk Wunderlich advances a fundamentally new approach to an understanding of Kant's theory of consciousness. In the first part of his study, he presents a detailed reconstruction of 18th century discussions on the theory of consciousness, focusing on those discussions in the context of which Kant's deliberations took place. In the second part, Kant's approaches to a theory of consciousness are related to these contemporary debates. The author takes the view that, contrary to appearances, Kant only modifies the standard contemporarary views on consciousness, apperception and consciousness of self to a limited degree and retains their terminological bases. Finally, an alternative interpretation of transcendental discussion is offered against the background of this contextualisation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110902426
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017977-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090242-6
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Propositionaler Gehalt und diskursive Kontoführung

Book 2004

Propositionaler Gehalt und diskursive Kontoführung

Eine Untersuchung zur Begründung der Sprachabhängigkeit intentionaler Zustände bei Brandom

Sebastian Knell

Volume 63 in this series

Sebastian Knell examines the theory of language and intentionality developed by Robert B. Brandom in his widely-discussed monograph Making it explicit . His study is centred on a critical examination of Brandom's thesis that intentional states (e.g. beliefs) are bound to linguistic ability.
The monograph opens with a presentation of Brandom's general theory of conceptual content; the author reconstructs the basic explanatory principles and the multi-layered architecture of this theory, and in addition he discusses certain problems of Brandom's pragmatic explanatory strategy. This is the first time that such a detailed reconstruction has been published in German, and thus the book is also of use for those readers seeking general orientation about Brandom's theory.
The second part discusses various arguments based on Brandom's analyses in favour of intentionality being bound to language. Knell's sceptical conclusion is that these analyses only lead to a foundation within the theory, which carries limited conviction.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110908381
ISBN:: 9783110908381
ISBN:: 9783110181265
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Kants Übergangskonzeption im Opus postumum

Book 2004

Kants Übergangskonzeption im Opus postumum

Zur Rolle des Nachlaßwerkes für die Grundlegung der empirischen Physik

Dina Emundts

Volume 62 in this series

In the scholarly debate, controversy surrounds the function and significance of Kant's Opus postumum for his philosophy. Dina Emundts demonstrates that the main function of the unpublished works is to develop a system of all the concepts required for empirical knowledge, and why this is indispensable for the foundation of an empirical physics. She presents a detailed analysis of the relationship of the conception of the Opus postumum to Kant's earlier writings. Beyond this, she examines further questions: why does Kant consider the foundation of the empirical sciences to be necessary, and why is this a task for a philosopher; how does Kant justify the possibility of scientific empirical knowledge; how does he proceed with the project of providing the necessary conceptual tools for an empirical physics?

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110913279
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018052-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091327-9
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Epistemology
Subject:: Philosophy of Science
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Ousia-Lehren des Aristoteles

Book 2003

Die Ousia-Lehren des Aristoteles

Untersuchungen zur Kategorienschrift und zur Metaphysik

Dirk Fonfara

Volume 61 in this series

There has been much discussion in recent research of the alleged contradictions in Aristotle's doctrine of substance (Gk. Ousia) in the Categories and in Book Z of the Metaphysics. In contrast to other interpretations, Dirk Fonfara succeeds in avoiding the alleged inconsistency by means of an aspectual ontological and epistemological distinction. In conclusion, Aristotle's ontology, which includes the divine realm (Metaphysics XII ), undergoes a conceptual classification.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110903621
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017978-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090362-1
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Sittengesetz und Freiheit

Book 2003

Sittengesetz und Freiheit

Untersuchungen zu Immanuel Kants Theorie des freien Willens

Jens Timmermann

Volume 60 in this series

This book treats Kant's attempt to harmonize moral law, natural law, and moral freedom within the context of his ethic. It offers insight into a highly developed, differentiated notional system that comes amazingly close to our everyday idea of moral responsibility.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110204810
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017699-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020481-0
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Das Subjekt als Grenze

Book 2003

Das Subjekt als Grenze

Ein Vergleich der erkenntnistheoretischen Ansätze bei Wittgenstein und Merleau-Ponty

Kathrin Stengel

Volume 59 in this series

Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty have been viewed as the figure heads of the opposing schools of analytical philosophy and phenomenology, respectively. Beginning her topological inquiry from the subject's situatedness in intersubjective space, Kathrin Stengel revisits such central topics in modern philosophy as the question of language and the problem of perception. In juxtaposing Wittgenstein's philosophy of language and Merleau-Ponty's theory of perception, Stengel discloses striking points of intersection and resemblance between the two putatively diverging approaches, with a view to elaborating a comprehensive theory of vision.

This book revolutionizes the debate between analytical and continental philosophy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110894707
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017714-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089470-7
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Hermeneutics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Scepticism, Freedom and Autonomy

Book 2003

Scepticism, Freedom and Autonomy

A Study of the Moral Foundations of Descartes' Theory of Knowledge

Marcelo de Araujo

Volume 58 in this series

How much does what we think depend on what we want? Descartes' much-discussed position has often been interpreted to mean that we hold an opinion as the result of a decision. In Scepticism, Freedom and Autonomy, Araujo argues against this interpretation, asserting that we retain control over our opinions only through selective attention. Even for this limited control, however, Cartesian Scepticism implies the possibility of self-delusion, symbolized in the writings of Descartes by the figure of the evil god. Hence, the existence of an evil god would not only cast doubt on our claims to knowledge but also jeopardize our freedom.

In this new interpretation, the Cartesian Scepticism, which is usually ascribed only epistemic significance, proves relevant for a fundamental moral question, that of human autonomy in general.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110910957
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017538-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091095-7
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Mechanics of Meaning

Book 2002

The Mechanics of Meaning

Propositional Content and the Logical Space of Wittgenstein's Tractatus

David Hyder

Volume 57 in this series

This analysis of Wittgenstein's concept of a Spielraum, in which the author approaches the Tractatus Logico-philosophicus both systematically and from the perspective of the history of philosophy and knowledge, opens up a new and important perspective in Wittgenstein research.

In establishing unexpected cross-connections between physics, the theory of perception, and logic, Hyder also makes a valuable contribution to the history of 19th century science. In particular, the links he establishes between early sensory physiology and the logicism of Russell and Frege yield a sharper and more plausible account of the notion of a "space" of possible meanings than has hitherto been available in the secondary literature. In showing this notion to be a formal precursor to that of a language game, the study also provides important pointers for the interpretation of Wittgenstein's late work.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110889130
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017218-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088913-0
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Subject:: Logic
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Phänomenales Bewußtsein als Problem für den Materialismus

Book 2002

Phänomenales Bewußtsein als Problem für den Materialismus

Alexander Staudacher

Volume 56 in this series

By 'phenomenal consciousnes' philosophers understand feelings such as pain and desire, but also our conscious perceptual experiences. How it is to have such an awareness is something each person can only know from their own experience. The author takes up a critical position towards the claim of many philosophers that the natural sciences can provide an adequate understanding and explanation of phenomenal consciousness.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110876949
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017177-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087694-9
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Epistemology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Rationalität des Mythischen

Book 2002

Die Rationalität des Mythischen

Der philosophische Mythos bei Platon und seine Exegese im Neuplatonismus

Dirk Cürsgen

Volume 55 in this series

The present study examines the significance of the mythical for Plato's philosophy and for classical thought after him. It concentrates on the closing myth of the Politeia and the commentary on this text by the Neo-Platonist Proclus. From this basis, it is possible for the author to make general statements on the function and status of the mythical in philosophy.

In contrast to the treatment in comparable publications, the myth is not isolated historically nor as an element in the dialogue. Thus it is possible to reflect in a new way on its relationship to philosophical thought in Classical Antiquity; the 'rationality' of the mythical arises from the reformulation of the dialogue connected with it.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110894622
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017337-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089462-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Intention des Dichters und die Zwecke der Interpreten

Book 2002

Die Intention des Dichters und die Zwecke der Interpreten

Zu Theorie und Praxis der Dichterauslegung in den platonischen Dialogen

Hartmut Westermann

Volume 54 in this series

The study examines the dialectic between a theory of interpretation as it is presented by the figures in the Dialogues and the practice of poetry interpretation as it is staged in Plato's fictitious conversations. Methodologically the analysis draws on an historically reflected hermeneutics of dialogue, and it paves the way to new insights into Plato's literary and philosophical self-image.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110204872
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017006-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020487-2
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Platon
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Apperzeption und Einbildungskraft

Book 2001

Apperzeption und Einbildungskraft

Die Auseinandersetzung mit der theoretischen Philosophie Kants in Fichtes früher Wissenschaftslehre

Christian Hanewald

Volume 53 in this series

This detailed interpretation confronts central theoretical elements of Kant's critical philosophy and Fichte's early philosophy of science. These include both the pure and the concrete ego, the derivation and justification of categories, and the Ding an sich.

In the development of these topics, the study demonstrates that the approaches of Kant and Fichte are not only of pre-eminent historical significance, but that each in its own way provides fundamentals for a philosophy of mind and epistemology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110885804
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017060-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088580-4
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Referenz und Fallibilismus

Book 2001

Referenz und Fallibilismus

Zu Hilary Putnams pragmatischem Kognitivismus

Axel Mueller

Volume 52 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110877243
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016955-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087724-3
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Subject:: Logic
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Der logische Aufbau von Leibniz' Metaphysik

Book 2001

Der logische Aufbau von Leibniz' Metaphysik

Andreas Blank

Volume 51 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110882384
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016878-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088238-4
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Ousia und Eudaimonia

Book 2001

Ousia und Eudaimonia

Die Verflechtung von Metaphysik und Ethik bei Aristoteles

Wolfgang Schneider

Volume 50 in this series

Das Buch stellt einen Meilenstein in der Aristoteles-Forschung dar, der mit einigen traditionellen Interpretationen der aristotelischen Philosophie radikal bricht.
An dem Fundamentalbegriff der Metaphysik, ousia (Sein, Wesen, "Seiendheit"), auf der einen, und dem Fundamentalbegriff der Ethik, eudaimonia (Glück, Glückseligkeit), auf der anderen Seite werden grundlegende Zusammenhänge zwischen der theoretischen und der praktischen Philosophie des Aristoteles dargestellt. Der Autor kommt dabei zu völlig neuen und interessanten Erkenntnissen über die Strukturen des aristotelischen Denkens.

Dieses Werk bereichert die Aristoteles-Forschung, die Philosophie des Geistes und die Ethik.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110872712
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016901-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087271-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Gewißheit des Fürwahrhaltens

Book 2000

Gewißheit des Fürwahrhaltens

Zur Bedeutung der Wahrheit im Fluß des Lebens nach Kant und Wittgenstein

Doris Vera Hofmann

Volume 49 in this series

This book presents the question of truth not via the contrast between true and false but in connection with different modes of certainty, i.e. truth in its complex relationships with practical questions and the need for judgements. These questions are systematically analyzed and discussed historically.

Using evidence of the decisive function of judgement, the author clarifies the connections and fractures between theoretical and practical philosophy. Judgement as an individual ability serves to evaluate the reactions of others to one's own perception of truth without there being a final general rule. Here, theoretical philosophy moves into political philosophy (Kant) or in the philosophy of psycholgy (Wittgenstein).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110804959
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016570-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080495-9
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Epistemology
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Personen und Identitäten

Book 2000

Personen und Identitäten

Dieter Teichert

Volume 48 in this series

The study is centred on the problem of personal identity. The discussion, particularly in contemporary Anglo-Saxon philosophy, is dominated by reductionist approaches which take psychological continuity as a criterion for identity. The author places these theories in a comprehensive historical and systematic context. He fills an important gap in the discussion. The criteria problem is linked with a study into the conditions for constituting personality. It counters rash simplifications by showing that the contextual dependence of the concept of person requires a plurality of specific identity criteria.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110802320
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016405-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080232-0
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: 'Über Prinzipien'

Book 1998

'Über Prinzipien'

Eine Untersuchung zur methodischen und inhaltlichen Geschlossenheit des ersten Buches der Physik des Aristoteles

Titus Maria Horstschäfer

Volume 47 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110804447
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016282-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080444-7
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Aristoteles' Transzendentaler Realismus

Book 1998

Aristoteles' Transzendentaler Realismus

Inhalt und Umfang erster Prinzipien in der "Metaphysik"

Burkhard Hafemann

Volume 46 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110803518
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016135-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080351-8
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Epistemology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Architektur der Synthese

Book 1998

Die Architektur der Synthese

Entstehung und Philosophie der modernen Evolutionstheorie

Marcel Weber

Volume 45 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110800197
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015893-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080019-7
Subject:: Life Sciences
Subject:: Evolutionary Biology
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Science
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Spur des Zeichens

Book 1997

Die Spur des Zeichens

Das Zeichen und seine Funktion in der Philosophie des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit

Stephan Meier-Oeser

Volume 44 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110803150
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015526-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080315-0
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Medieval Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Genese und Analyse

Book 1997

Genese und Analyse

Logik, Rhetorik und Hermeneutik im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert

Klaus Petrus

Volume 43 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110820430
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015394-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082043-0
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Ästhetische Autonomie als Abnormität

Book 1996

Ästhetische Autonomie als Abnormität

Kritische Analysen zu Schopenhauers Ästhetik im Horizont seiner Willensmetaphysik

Barbara Neymeyr

Volume 42 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110813593
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015229-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081359-3
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Aesthetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Bolzanos Propositionalismus

Book 1996

Bolzanos Propositionalismus

Markus Textor

Volume 41 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110811544
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014961-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081154-4
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Subject:: Logic
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Sea Battle and the Master Argument

Book 1995

The Sea Battle and the Master Argument

Aristotle and Diodorus Cronus on the Metaphysics of the Future

Richard Gaskin

Volume 40 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110866346
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014430-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086634-6
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Aristoteles
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Überwindung des mathematischen Erkenntnisideals

Book 1995

Die Überwindung des mathematischen Erkenntnisideals

Kants Grenzbestimmung von Mathematik und Philosophie

Brigitta-Sophie von Wolff-Metternich

Volume 39 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110874495
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014511-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087449-5
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: A Semiotic Reconstruction of Ryle's Critique of Cartesianism

Book 1994

A Semiotic Reconstruction of Ryle's Critique of Cartesianism

Bairady Narahari Rao

Volume 38 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110882506
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014156-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088250-6
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Epistemology
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Karl Rosenkranz

Book 1994

Karl Rosenkranz

Briefe 1827 bis 1850

Joachim Butzlaff

Volume 37 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110867886
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014373-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086788-6
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Autonomie und Autokratie

Book 1994

Autonomie und Autokratie

Über Kants Metaphysik der Sitten

Peter König

Volume 36 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110876086
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014302-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087608-6
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Gewissheit als Norm

Book 1993

Gewissheit als Norm

Wittgensteins erkenntnistheoretische Untersuchungen in "Über Gewissheit"

Michael Kober

Volume 35 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110879629
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014026-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087962-9
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Epistemology
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Kritik des Naturalismus

Book 1993

Kritik des Naturalismus

Geert Keil

Volume 34 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110886856
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013865-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088685-6
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Der propositionale Wahrheitsbegriff im 14. Jahrhundert

Book 1992

Der propositionale Wahrheitsbegriff im 14. Jahrhundert

Dominik Perler

Volume 33 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110863390
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013415-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086339-0
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Medieval Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Leibniz' Auffassung des menschlichen Verstandes (intellectus)

Book 1992

Leibniz' Auffassung des menschlichen Verstandes (intellectus)

Eine Untersuchung zum Standpunktwechsel zwischen "système commun" und "système nouveau" und dem Versuch ihrer Vermittlung

Werner Schüßler

Volume 32 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110848687
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013645-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-084868-7
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Platons Dialektik

Book 1992

Platons Dialektik

Die frühen und mittleren Dialoge

Peter Stemmer

Volume 31 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110870435
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012770-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087043-5
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Platon
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Handeln wider besseres Wissen

Book 1992

Handeln wider besseres Wissen

Eine Diskussion klassischer Positionen

Thomas Spitzley

Volume 30 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110871531
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013507-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087153-1
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Was sind Ereignisse?

Book 1992

Was sind Ereignisse?

Eine Studie zur analytischen Ontologie

Ralf Stoecker

Volume 29 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110875362
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012909-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087536-2
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Berechenbare Vernunft

Book 1991

Berechenbare Vernunft

Kalkül und Rationalismus im 17. Jahrhundert

Sybille Krämer

Volume 28 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110847079
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012106-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-084707-9
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Kant und das Problem der Gesetzmäßigkeit der Natur

Book 1991

Kant und das Problem der Gesetzmäßigkeit der Natur

Bernhard Thöle

Volume 27 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110854091
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012193-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085409-1
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Kants Theorie des reinen Geschmacksurteils

Book 1990

Kants Theorie des reinen Geschmacksurteils

Christel Fricke

Volume 26 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110860207
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012585-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086020-7
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Kants Gesinnungsethik

Book 1990

Kants Gesinnungsethik

Harald Köhl

Volume 25 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110851786
ISBN:: 9783110851786
ISBN:: 9783110123098
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Sinn als Bedeutung

Book 1989

Sinn als Bedeutung

Bedeutungstheoretische Untersuchungen zur Psychoanalyse Sigmund Freuds

Achim Stephan

Volume 24 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110864724
ISBN:: 978-3-11-011949-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086472-4
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Epistemology
Subject:: Philosophy of Science
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Das älteste Systemprogramm des deutschen Idealismus

Book 1989

Das älteste Systemprogramm des deutschen Idealismus

Rezeptionsgeschichte und Interpretation

Frank-Peter Hansen

Volume 23 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110848311
ISBN:: 978-3-11-011809-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-084831-1
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Geschichte als Entwicklung?

Book 1988

Geschichte als Entwicklung?

Zur Kritik des geschichtsphilosophischen Entwicklungsdenkens

Andreas Cesana

Volume 22 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110856699
ISBN:: 9783110856699
ISBN:: 9783110117370
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Culture
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Transformation des klassischen Seinsverständnisses

Book 1986

Die Transformation des klassischen Seinsverständnisses

Studien zur Vorgeschichte des neuzeitlichen Seinsbegriffs im Mittelalter

Rolf Schönberger

Volume 21 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110852677
ISBN:: 978-3-11-010296-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085267-7
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Medieval Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Wohlgeordnete Freiheit

Book 1984

Wohlgeordnete Freiheit

Immanuel Kants Rechts- und Staatsphilosophie

Wolfgang Kersting

Volume 20 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110864250
ISBN:: 978-3-11-009587-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086425-0
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Synthesis bei Kant

Book 1983

Synthesis bei Kant

Das Problem der Verbindung von Vorstellungen und ihrer Gegenstandsbeziehungen in der "Kritik der reinen Vernunft"

Hansgeorg Hoppe

Volume 19 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110855746
ISBN:: 9783110089813
ISBN:: 9783110855746
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Platons 'Parmenides'

Book 1983

Platons 'Parmenides'

Probleme der Interpretation

Rudolf P. Hägler

Volume 18 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110854299
ISBN:: 978-3-11-009599-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085429-9
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Platon
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Humes verborgener Rationalismus

Book 1982

Humes verborgener Rationalismus

Lothar Kreimendahl

Volume 17 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110849592
ISBN:: 978-3-11-008865-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-084959-2
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Aristotelische Modaltheorie

Book 1982

Die Aristotelische Modaltheorie

Gerhard Seel

Volume 16 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110867008
ISBN:: 978-3-11-008110-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086700-8
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Logic
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Aristoteles
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Basis und Deduktion

Book 1980

Basis und Deduktion

Studien zur Entstehung und Bedeutung der Theorie der axiomatischen Methode bei J. H. Lambert (1728-1777)

Gereon Wolters

Volume 15 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110864014
ISBN:: 978-3-11-007932-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086401-4
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Scientia rerum natura occultarum

Book 1978

Scientia rerum natura occultarum

Methodologische Studien zur Physik Pierre Gassendis

Wolfgang Detel

Volume 14 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110860610
ISBN:: 978-3-11-007320-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086061-0
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Kants Theorie des geometrischen Gegenstandes

Book 1978

Kants Theorie des geometrischen Gegenstandes

Untersuchungen über die Voraussetzungen der Entdeckbarkeit geometrischer Gegenstände bei Kant

Rainer Enskat

Volume 13 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110843293
ISBN:: 978-3-11-007644-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-084329-3
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Kants Konstitutionstheorie und die Transzendentale Deduktion

Book 1978

Kants Konstitutionstheorie und die Transzendentale Deduktion

Malte Hossenfelder

Volume 12 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110865370
ISBN:: 978-3-11-005969-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086537-0
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Bd 1 Hegel im Spiegel der Interpretationen

Book 1977

Bd 1 Hegel im Spiegel der Interpretationen

Part of the multi-volume work Individuum und Gemeinschaft bei Hegel

Volume 11 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110851427
ISBN:: 978-3-11-007134-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085142-7
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Selbstbewußtsein und Unbewußtes

Book 1976

Selbstbewußtsein und Unbewußtes

Studien zu Freud und Heidegger

Martin Bartels

Volume 10 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110855319
ISBN:: 978-3-11-005778-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085531-9
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Subject:: Metaphysics, Ontology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Kants Logik

Book 1976

Kants Logik

Eine Interpretation auf der Grundlage von Vorlesungen, veröffentlichten Werken und Nachlaß

Rainer Stuhlmann-Laeisz

Volume 9 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110862058
ISBN:: 978-3-11-005840-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086205-8
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Kritik und Praxis

Book 1975

Kritik und Praxis

Zur Geschichte des Kritikbegriffs von Kant bis Marx

Kurt Röttgers

Volume 8 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110829983
ISBN:: 978-3-11-004604-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082998-3
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Das Absolute und die Wirklichkeit in Schellings Philosophie

Book 1974

Das Absolute und die Wirklichkeit in Schellings Philosophie

Mit der Erstedition einer Handschrift aus dem Berliner Schelling-Nachlass

Barbara Loer

Volume 7 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110845167
ISBN:: 978-3-11-004329-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-084516-7
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Der Begriff des Empirismus

Book 1973

Der Begriff des Empirismus

Erkenntnistheoretische Studien am Beispiel John Lockes

Lorenz Krüger

Volume 6 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110839425
ISBN:: 978-3-11-004133-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-083942-5
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Substanz und Qualität

Book 1973

Substanz und Qualität

Ein Beitrag zur Interpretation der plotinischen Traktate VI,1, 2 und 3

Klaus Wurm

Volume 5 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110828528
ISBN:: 978-3-11-001899-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082852-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Methodo scientifica pertractatum

Book 1971

Methodo scientifica pertractatum

Mos geometricus und Kalkülbegriff in der philosophischen Theorienbildung des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts

Hans W. Arndt

Volume 4 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110844900
ISBN:: 978-3-11-003942-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-084490-0
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Metaphysische und transzendentale Dynamik in Kants opus postumum

Book 1971

Metaphysische und transzendentale Dynamik in Kants opus postumum

Burkhard Tuschling

Volume 3 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110818390
ISBN:: 978-3-11-001889-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081839-0
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Fallgesetz und Massebegriff

Book 1971

Fallgesetz und Massebegriff

Zwei wissenschaftshistorische Untersuchungen zur Kosmologie des Johannes Philoponus

Michael Wolff

Volume 2 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110838831
ISBN:: 978-3-11-006428-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-083883-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Medieval Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Erscheinung bei Kant

Book