German Idealism and the Problem of Knowledge: [electronic resource] : Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel /
Limnatis, Nectarios G.author.
Examines the evolution of the German idealist discussion with respect to an array of concepts. Emphasizing the unity between the logical and the historical, the distinction between intellectual and rational explanation, and the cognitive importance of contradiction, this book argues for the prospect of an evolving totality of reflective reason.
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Examines the evolution of the German idealist discussion with respect to an array of concepts. Emphasizing the unity between the logical and the historical, the distinction between intellectual and rational explanation, and the cognitive importance of contradiction, this book argues for the prospect of an evolving totality of reflective reason.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
1. Epistemology or Metaphysics? The Kantian Background. 1.1 Scientific Metaphysics? 1.2. Transcendentalism versus Realism? 1.3. The Ontological Facet: the Transcendental Self and the Thing-in-itself. 1.4. From the Ontological to the Logical. Understanding, Reason and Totality. 1.5. The Logical Facet: Kant’s Relation to Formal Logic and the Problem of Contradiction -- 2. From Epistemology to Metaphysics: Fichte and Schelling. 2.1. Fichte: The Thing-in-itself and the Dialectical Leap. 2.2. Schelling: Epistemology and the Resurrection of Metaphysics -- 3. From Metaphysics to Epistemology I: From the Phenomenology to the Logic or Hegel’s Claim for Absolute Knowing and its Meaning. 3.1. Idealism, Reason and Contradiction in the Early Hegel. 3.2. Hegel’ Phenomenology. The Coming to be of the Self and the Question of Intersubjectivity. 3.3. The Transition to Self-Consciousness and Idealism -- 4. From Metaphysics to Epistemology II: Logic and Reality. 4.1. The Idea of an Epistemological Reading of the Science of Logic. 4.2. Toward an Epistemological Totality. Conclusion. Bibliography.
Philosophy.
Modern philosophy.
Philosophy of mind.
Epistemology.
Logic.
Philosophy and science.
History of Philosophy.
Modern Philosophy.
Philosophy of Mind.
Epistemology.
Logic.
Philosophy of Science.


Studies in German Idealism