The twenty-five years of philosophy [electronic resource] : a systematic reconstruction / Eckart Förster ; translated by Brady Bowman.
2012
B2798 .F6713 2012eb
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The twenty-five years of philosophy [electronic resource] : a systematic reconstruction / Eckart Förster ; translated by Brady Bowman.
Author
Förster, Eckart.
Uniform Title
25 Jahre der Philosophie. English
ISBN
9780674064980 electronic book
9780674055162
9780674055162
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2012.
Language
English
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Translated from the German.
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1 online resource (xi, 408 p.) : ill.
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B2798 .F6713 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
193
Summary
Kant declared that philosophy began in 1781 with his Critique of Pure Reason. In 1806 Hegel announced that philosophy had now been completed. Eckart Förster examines the reasons behind these claims and assesses the steps that led in such a short time from Kant's "(Bbeginning" to Hegel's "(Bend." He concludes that, in an unexpected yet significant sense, both Kant and Hegel were indeed right. The Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy follows the unfolding of a key idea during this exceptionally productive period: the Kantian idea that philosophy can be scientific and, consequently, can be completed. Förster's study combines historical research with philosophical insight and leads him to propose a new thesis. The development of Kant's transcendental philosophy in his three Critiques, Förster claims, resulted in a fundamental distinction between "(Bintellectual intuition" and "(Bintuitive understanding." Overlooked until now, this distinction yields two takes on how to pursue philosophy as science after Kant. One line of thought culminates in Fichte's theory of freedom (Wissenschaftslehre), while the other--and here Förster brings Goethe's significance to the fore--results in Goethe's transformation of the Kantian idea of an intuitive understanding in light of Spinoza's third kind of knowledge. Both strands are brought together in Hegel and propel his split from Schelling. Förster's work makes an original contribution to our understanding of the classical era of German philosophy--an expanding interest within the Anglophone philosophical community.
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Table of Contents
Kant's "revolution of the mode of thought"
Critique and morals
From A to B
How to become a Spinozist
From one make three
The "critical enterprise": complete?
The "critical enterprise": incomplete?
Fichte's "complete revolution of the mode of thought"
Morals and critique
Spiritus sive natura? The methodology of the intuitive understanding
Does philosophy have a history?
Hegel's "voyages of discovery": incomplete
Hegel's "voyages of discovery": complete.
Critique and morals
From A to B
How to become a Spinozist
From one make three
The "critical enterprise": complete?
The "critical enterprise": incomplete?
Fichte's "complete revolution of the mode of thought"
Morals and critique
Spiritus sive natura? The methodology of the intuitive understanding
Does philosophy have a history?
Hegel's "voyages of discovery": incomplete
Hegel's "voyages of discovery": complete.