Ecological Ethics and Living Subjectivity in Hegel's Logic [electronic resource] : The Middle Voice of Autopoietic Life /
Kisner, W.author.
By interweaving Hegelian dialectic and the middle voice, this book develops a holistic account of life, nature, and the ethical orientation of human beings with respect to them without falling into the trap of either subjecting human rights to totality or relegating non-human beings and their habitats to instrumentalism.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Life, Mechanism, and Dialectical Logic; Ontological problems; Ontological problems resolved; Ethical problems; Ethical problems resolved; The Hegelian contribution; Late-twentieth-century Spinozism; Immanent logic; The middle voice; A philosophy of nature for today; The rise of mechanism in the modern period; 2 Life in the Middle Voice; The middle voice in linguistics; Philosophical implications of the middle voice; Life as medial hypostasis; Medial dialectic
3 The Emergence of Life from Mechanico-Chemical ProcessesIntroduction to Hegelian logic; The ontological character of logical determinacy; A brief overview of the Science of Logic; From mechanism to life; 1. Mechanism; 2. Chemism; 3. Teleology; 4. Living hypostasis; Vitalism, mechanism, and reductive accounts; 4 The Biologic of Life; Life; The organic individual; Sensibility: organic receptivity; Irritability: from the organism to the environment; Self-reproduction; Ecological niches; Assimilation; Symbiosis; Death; Reproduction and species; Living cognition
Medial hypostatic life and autopoiesis5 An Ecological Ethic; Problems that have arisen in environmental ethics; Animal rights; Holism, deep ecology, and attitude adjustment; Ecofeminism; Ecological holism and the land ethic; The nature/artifice dualism; Common problems; The ecological ethic; 6 From Ontological Determinacy to Natural Contingency; From logic to nature: other approaches; Ontological determinacy as nature; 1. The absolute idea; 2. The absolute idea as nature; 3. The diastasis of identity; 4. Nature as a sphere of contingency; 5. The big picture
6. Thinking nature: method and contentA philosophy of nature for today; 7 The Biologic of Autopoiesis; Maturana and the biology of cognition; Autopoiesis; Living autonomy; Mechanistic bias; Relational self-subsistence; Allopoietic and autopoietic machines; Teleology; Foundational vs. non-foundational logics; Higher-order autopoietic systems; Autopoietic unity as an ontological determinacy; The ontogenic solipsism of autopoiesis; Autopoiesis after Maturana; Life as surplus of significance; A Hegelian clarification; Mortal life; Philosophy of nature revisited; 8 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography
Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
By interweaving Hegelian dialectic and the middle voice, this book develops a holistic account of life, nature, and the ethical orientation of human beings with respect to them without falling into the trap of either subjecting human rights to totality or relegating non-human beings and their habitats to instrumentalism.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
Ethics.
Philosophy and science.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Idealism, German.
Ethics.
Moral Philosophy.
Philosophy of Science.
Social Philosophy.
German Idealism.