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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Immanuel Kant."”.
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The interplay of trauma and the sublime in four fictions by Ian McEwan.
… of the sublime described by Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant. These evocations of trauma and the sublime often coincide in the novels.
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Foucault, Kant, Deleuze, and the problem of political agency
… philosophy, placed in relation to the work of Immanuel Kant and Gilles Deleuze. I argue that the key to Foucault's political thought is contained in two crucial but neglected concepts, <em>verticality </em>and<em>transversality,</em> and that the systematic exposition of these concepts yields …
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Exploring the Role of the Self in the Islamic-Western Human Rights Discourse: A Comparative Examination of Foundational Texts of Key Scholars from the Shī‘ī-Muslim and Western Philosophical Tradition - ‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib, Zayn al-‘Ābidīn, Søren Kierkegaard and Immanuel Kant
… Metaphysics of Morals by the German philosopher, Immanuel Kant.<br/>By engaging in a comparative analysis of these texts, I aim to construct a role for the self that is appropriate for the human rights discourse and introduce a framework to access it. I argue that human beings from whatever …
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The pioneering spirit in the face of mystery : a creative exploration of phenomena pertinent to the information age in a systems paradigm
… one area where I experience mystery intensely. Immanuel Kant, an important philosopher of the Enlightenment, proposes that one can and should contain the sublime with reason, and in the process elevate it to an objective, universal and rational truth. My response to, and understanding of, the …
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Twelve-Tone Identity: Adorno Reading Schoenberg through Kant
… can be seen in light of his criticism of Immanuel Kant. Critiquing Kant’s concept of Enlightenment and his dualist philosophy, Adorno also critiques common misconceptions about Kant's work in bourgeois society. Similarly, in Schoenberg's oeuvre Adorno finds radical musical creation but …
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Um guðssannanir
… frá því að þau eru fyrst lögð fram af Anselm frá Kantaraborg og allt þar til Immanuel Kant hafnar þeim. Hér er ekki leitast við að vera með tæmandi útskýringu á verufræðilegu rökunum heldur er leitast við að gefa yfirsýn yfir mismunandi nálganir á kenninguna. Verufræðilegu rökin stefna að því að …
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Monstrous visions: mechanisms of defense and regimes of visibility
… in dialogue with figures such as Jean Bodin and Immanuel Kant in order to elaborate the mechanisms of defense operative in their conceptual foundations. Throughout, it is argued that mechanisms of social defense function in relation to the formation of aesthetic regimes. Biopolitical social …
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Acerca del concepto "dignidad" (Würde) en la filosofía moral de Kant
… por objetivo dilucidar la concepción que tiene Immanuel Kant sobre la dignidad en sus principales obras de Filosofía Moral. Se analizarán las menciones presentes en la Fundamentación para una metafísica de las costumbres y en los Principios Metafísicos de la Doctrina de la Virtud, …
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The Sidereal Visions of Kant, Humboldt, and Einstein: An Introduction to German Cosmological Prose
… und Theorie des Himmels (1755) by Immanuel Kant, a work that initiated the still current "nebular hypothesis" of cosmogony, suggested systematic replication on a galactic scale, and also predicted planets beyond Saturn. In the mid-nineteenth century, Alexander von Humboldt …
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La conciencia moral: entre la libertad racional y la represión cultural
… noción de moral, siguiendo el punto de vista de Immanuel Kant y Sigmund Freud, con la finalidad de rastrear los fundamentos teóricos y filosóficos que nos permitan dar respuesta a la pregunta: ¿en virtud de qué cumplimos con leyes morales? ¿cuál es la motivación que nos lleva a cumplir con el …
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Beauty and the treatment of addiction
… of reflective aesthetic judgment presented by Immanuel Kant in the Critique of Judgment. This approach is justified by an examination of the experiences of addicts, working from the problem as it is understood to a possible solution. Because the problem is an inadequacy of willpower, cognitive …
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Nagorno Karabakh Conflict: Problems and Possibilities for Political Resolution
… phenomena in state's relations with one another. Immanuel Kant argued over two hundred years ago that three components were necessary in order for dyads to behave peacefully toward one another: institutionalized democracy, closely intertwined economies, and international organizations. In this …
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The fate of universal history: on the task of philosophy of history between Kant and Benjamin
… theory of universal history that descends from Immanuel Kant through Early German Romanticism to Walter Benjamin. I show that the division between the idealist and the materialist interpretations of universal history results from their methodologically distinct treatments of the problem of …
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Freedom, Markets, and Equality in Eighteenth Century Philosophy
… Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Adam Smith, and Immanuel Kant defended the value of free markets. It reconstructs their defense of liberal economic reforms, including free trade (domestic and foreign) and the deregulation of markets in labor and land. Through this reconstruction, I demonstrate …
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Re-thinking contemporary aesthetic spaces : Diana Thorneycroft and the unacceptable sublime
… is situated outside of the sublime defined by Immanuel Kant and Edmund Burke, I hope to promote a new space in which the human body and its training can be challenged. The museum and art gallery can serve as a liberating and emancipatory space in which to explore human response.
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Warring opinions: an investigation into the sublime aesthetic narratives of contemporary warfare.
… Paul de Man, Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, and Immanuel Kant are central to the analysis of sources throughout the project.
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Some German influences in American philosophical thought from 1800-1850
… development was the philosophy founded by Immanuel Kant, and brought to universal influence by Hegel, and other Post-Kantians. It was the purpose of this dissertation to investigate and evaluate the German philosophical influences as they are traceable in our native speculation during the …
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The Symbolic Form of Architecture: An investigation into its philosophical foundations and a discussion on the development of the perception of architectural form by modern heoreticians and symbolist architects
… for this concept in the works of Ernst Cassirer, Immanuel Kant, Conrad Fiedler, and Theodor Adorno. Then, the development of the modern perception of form in architectural theoreticians, where "modern" architectural theory evolved from an analogical state into a symbolic state, is examined: Karl …
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Hearing the Sublime: Signification of the Sublime in Solo Piano Literature of the Nineteenth Century
… as understood by Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797), Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804), Friedrich Schiller (1759 – 1805), and Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860), with references to other contemporary philosophers and writers. The broader influence of the sublime in regards to German-speaking regions and …
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Prolegomena to Kant's Theory of the Derangement of the Cognitive Faculties
<p>In the literature on Immanuel Kant there is no systematic account of the derangement of the constitutive cognitive faculties from an exclusively philosophical point of view. This dissertation opens the path for the development of such an account. It does so by presenting Kant's positive account …
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