The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to FichteHarvard University Press, 1 jul 2009 - 410 pagina's The Fate of Reason is the first general history devoted to the period between Kant and Fichte, one of the most revolutionary and fertile in modern philosophy. The philosophers of this time broke with the two central tenets of the modem Cartesian tradition: the authority of reason and the primacy of epistemology. They also witnessed the decline of the Aufkldrung, the completion of Kant's philosophy, and the beginnings of post-Kantian idealism. Thanks to Beiser we can newly appreciate the influence of Kant's critics on the development of his philosophy. Beiser brings the controversies, and the personalities who engaged in them, to life and tells a story that has uncanny parallels with the debates of the present. |
Inhoudsopgave
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15 Kant Hamann and the Optimism Controversy | 29 |
16 The Kinderphysik Fiasco | 32 |
17 Aesthetica in nuce and EighteenthCentury Aesthetics | 33 |
67 The Good Pastor Pistorius | 188 |
The Revenge of the Wolffians | 193 |
72 Revolution versus Reaction | 197 |
73 The Wolffian Defense of Metaphysics | 199 |
74 The Thorn in Kants Side J A Ulrich | 203 |
75 The Scrooge of Tubingen J F Flatt | 210 |
76 Platners MetaCritical Skepticism | 214 |
77 The Eberhard Controversy | 217 |
Genesis Contents and Consequences | 37 |
Jacobi and the Pantheism Controversy | 44 |
22 The Rise of Spinozism in Germany 16801786 | 48 |
23 The Dispute over Lessings Spinozism | 61 |
24 The Philosophical Significance of the Controversy | 75 |
25 Jacobis First Critique of Reason | 83 |
26 Jacobis Second Critique of Reason | 85 |
27 Jacobis Defense of Faith | 89 |
Mendelssohn and the Pantheism Controversy | 92 |
32 In Defense of Reason | 94 |
33 Mendelssohns Nightmare or the Method of Orientation | 98 |
34 The Critique of Spinozism and Purified Pantheism | 102 |
35 Mendelssohns Covert Critique of Kant | 105 |
Kant Jacobi and Wizenmann in Battle | 109 |
42 Kants Contribution to the Pantheism Controversy | 113 |
43 Wizenmanns Reply to Kant | 118 |
44 Jacobis Attack on Kant | 122 |
Herders Philosophy of Mind | 127 |
52 Herder on the Origin of Language | 130 |
53 Hamann and Herders Debate over the Origin of Language | 135 |
54 Herders Genetic Method | 141 |
55 The Principles of Herders Vitalism | 145 |
56 Kants Quarrel with Herder | 149 |
57 The KantHerder Controversy and the Origins of the Third Kritik | 153 |
58 Herder and the Pantheism Controversy | 158 |
The Attack of the Lockeans | 165 |
62 Highlights of the Lockean Campaign against Kant | 169 |
63 The Garve Affair | 172 |
C G Selle and D Tiedemann | 177 |
65 The Lockean Ringleader J G Feder | 180 |
A G Tittel and A Weishaupt | 184 |
78 The Consequences of the Wolf flan Campaign | 224 |
Reinholds Elementarphilosophie | 226 |
82 Reinholds Early Quarrel with Kant | 229 |
83 Reinholds Briefe and Conversion to the Critical Philosophy | 232 |
84 The Path toward the Elementarphilosophie | 236 |
85 Reinholds Critique of Kant and the Aims of the Elementarphilosophie | 240 |
86 Reinholds Methodology | 244 |
87 Reinholds Phenomenological Project | 247 |
88 Reinholds Proposition of Consciousness and the New Theory of Representation | 252 |
89 The Crisis of the Elementarphilosophie | 263 |
Schulzes Skepticism | 266 |
92 Schulzes MetaCritical Skepticism | 268 |
93 The Critique of Reinhold | 272 |
94 The MetaCritique of Kant | 280 |
95 Strengths and Weaknesses of Schulzes Skepticism | 282 |
Maimons Critical Philosophy | 285 |
102 Maimons Skepticism | 288 |
103 The Idea of an Infinite Understanding | 293 |
104 The Theory of Differentials | 295 |
105 The New Theory of Space and Time | 300 |
106 The Critical Middle Path | 303 |
107 The Elimination of the Thinginitself | 306 |
108 Maimons Transcendental Logic | 309 |
109 The Principle of Determinability | 311 |
1010 Maimons Controversy with Reinhold | 317 |
1011 Maimon versus Schulze | 320 |
Conclusion | 324 |
Notes | 329 |
Bibliography | 375 |
Index | 391 |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte Frederick C. Beiser Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2009 |
The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte Frederick C. Beiser Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1993 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
According Aenesidemus appeared argues argument atheism attack Aufklärung authority of reason belief Berlin Beyträge Briefe Briefwechsel causality claim common sense consists criterion critical philosophy critique deduction defend determine distinction dogmatism dualism Eberhard Elementarphilosophie epistemology essay existence explain faculty of representation faith Feder Fichte Flatt Garve Geschichte Hamann Hegel Hence Herder Hume Ibid idealism important infinite understanding insists intuition Jacobi Kant Kant's philosophy Kantian knowledge Leibniz Lessing Lessing's Spinozism Lockeans logic Maimon Mendelssohn metaphysics mind moral Morgenstunden nature necessary object origin of language pantheism controversy Pistorius Platner polemic Popularphilosophen post-Kantian predicate principle of sufficient priori concepts problem proposition of consciousness question rational rationalist reality Reimarus Reinhold religion reply Schriften Schulze Schulze's sensibility significance skepticism speculation Spinoza Spinoza's philosophy Spinozist Sturm und Drang synthetic a priori teleology theory thing-in-itself things things-in-themselves third Kritik tradition transcendental truth Ueber Ulrich Vernunft Versuch Werke Wizenmann Wolffians
Populaire passages
Pagina 41 - A classic example, as paraphrased in Beiser (1987), is Hamann's objection, voiced in his Metakritik, written in 1784 but not published until 1800: Although Kant says that knowledge arises from the interaction between understanding and sensibility, he has so sharply divided these faculties that all interchange between them becomes inconceivable. The understanding is intelligible, non-temporal, and non-spatial; but sensibility is phenomenal, temporal and spatial. How, then, will they coordinate their...
Pagina 98 - Father, give ! pure truth is for Thee alone ! " It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death.
Pagina 302 - But in order to proceed from mathematics to natural philosophy, another principle is requisite, (as I have observed in my Theodicy,) I mean the principle of the sufficient reason ; or, in other words, that nothing happens without a reason why it should be so rather than otherwise.
Pagina 28 - Hamann's thought, however, lacks dialectic. Although for Hamann "faith is not the work of reason, and therefore cannot succumb to its attacks," there is no thought of faith being antagonistic to reason. And even if faith "happens as little for reasons as do tasting and sensing,"9 it still happens in much the same way as do these latter.
Pagina 36 - She will dare to purify the natural use of the senses from the unnatural use of abstractions, which mutilate our ideas of things as badly as they suppress and blaspheme the name of the Creator. I speak with you, O Greeks, because you think yourselves wiser than the chamberlains...
Pagina 27 - Our own being and the existence of all things outside us must be believed, and cannot be...
Pagina 285 - But a glance at the manuscript soon enabled me to recognize its merits and to see not only that none of my opponents had understood me and the main problem so well, but that very few could claim so much penetration and sublety of mind in profound inquiries of this sort...
Pagina 378 - Lessings mittelbare und unmittelbare feindselige Angriffe auf unsere allerheiligste Religion, und auf den einigen Lehrgrund derselben, die heilige Schrift«.