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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"critical philosophy"”.
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Experience, Time, and the Subject: Deleuze's Transformation of Kant's Critical Philosophy
… in a transformation of Kant's transcendental philosophy. Kant is central to Deleuze's project because Deleuze finds in Kant the idea that the justification for truth is internal to the relation of subject and object. Since the internal relation is vital to Deleuze's notion of experience, his …
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Kant's Epistemological geography : the role of Schwärmerei and demarcation in the conception of critical philosophy
… it is argued, continued to figure in the critical period as one of the prime s of the unkowable objects, that is, noumena. Therefore, it is claimed that Schwärmerei and the related practices played an intrinsic role in Kant's conception of the Grenze, a limit of the conditions of …
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Freedom as the Way of Life: Power, Truth-Telling, and the Politics of Michel Foucault’s Critical Philosophy
… treatment of power should be read as part of the critical project that takes power to be its target. Seen in this light, the notion of truth-telling, which Foucault elaborated in his last three years, is nothing short of the conception that enabled him to complete his critical project against …
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Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms and the Dialectical Problem of Knowledge
… rooted in the reality of the knower. The Kantian critical philosophy defeats Humean skepticism by demonstrating the a priori necessity of certain categorical functions at the root of all human cognition, but ultimately results in merely shifting the problem of certainty to these same functions. …
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Roots and Role of the Imagination in Kant: Imagination at the Core
Kant's critical philosophy promises to overturn both Empiricism and Rationalism by arguing for the necessity of a passive faculty, sensibility, and an active faculty, understanding, in order for cognition to obtain. Kant argues in favor of sense impression found in standard empirical philosophies …
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The Transformation of Kant's Transcendental Idealism: Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre
… that his system is true to the spirit of Kant's critical philosophy. However, to the extent that his method of presentation differs from Kant's, the dissertation argues that Fichte's view is his own, and should be evaluated on its own merit.
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The Mother of Chaos and Night: Kant's Metaphilosophical Attack on Indifferentism
<p>Kant positions the Critical philosophy as a response to the crisis of metaphysics - a crisis that is still with us. But his diagnosis of that crisis in terms of a struggle between dogmatism, skepticism, and indifferentism is given short shrift in the secondary literature, despite its promise to …
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Kant on the Progression of Representation
… clarity to a number of issues within Kant's critical philosophy, the debate partially rests on a conflation of two importantly distinct representational states, namely 'intuition' [Anschaaung] and 'perception' [Wahrnehmung]. I argue that once this distinction is noted, many of the passages …
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Reflective judgment vs. investigation of things – a comparative study of Kant and Zhu Xi
… stimulated Kant’s writings during his late critical period towards the notion of the supersensible. It further motivated a methodological shift and his coining of reflective judgment, which eventually brought about a systemic unfolding of his critical philosophy via Kantian moral teleology. …
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Theorizing Racial Democracy
<p>The critical philosophy of race has shown recent growth, but it tends to focus too much on the United States. This leaves many race-related concepts and phenomena from other parts of the world underexplored. I help to fill this gap by exploring the idea of "racial democracy" in Brazil, which is …
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F.A. Lange's "standpoint of the ideal" : reform or revolution?
… of the Ideal. As a modification of Kant's critical philosophy, it asserts that a part of the human constitution is a universal, poetic inclination that underlies experience and acts to synthesize experience into a harmonious unity. This harmonizing principle also has an aesthetic and …
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Hegel's Critique of Representationalism
… takes up this issue in his discussion of Kant’s philosophy. Hegel finds in Kant’s Critical Philosophy an identity of subject and object that is implicitly anti-representational, but he criticises Kant for articulating this identity in a way that reinstates representationalism at the level of …
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"Die Willkuer der Ichsucht": Jean Paul's "Clavis Fichtiana" and the critique of German idealism
… idealists. The attempt to expand upon Kant's Critical Philosophy resulted in the development of a number of ambitious philosophical systems, all of which claimed to be the completion and ultimate culmination of Kant's ideas. For the early German Romantics the most influential among Kant's …
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Soul, World, God: Hegel’s Vorbegriff to the ‘Science of Logic’ in the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences
… identifies and critiques those conceptions of philosophy which assume that through thinking the true nature of objects is brought before consciousness. ‘Metaphysics’ begins without a clear historical referent but finds itself coalescing around the dogmatic metaphysicians of the post-Reformation …
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Innovative teachers’ pedagogical efficacy in their use of emerging technologies
… draws on tenets from socio-cultural theory, critical philosophy, emerging technology and teaching and learning theory and aims to construct rational foundations to assist in the articulation of new theories which, in turn, will better our understanding of this new emerging pedagogical …
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Ethics and affects: A critique of social intelligibility with Adorno, Butler and Spivak
… with Adorno, Butler and Spivak I offer a critical analysis that can help to disentangle the reliance of social legitimacy on social intelligibility. I maintain that legitimacy and intelligibility are woven into a kind of double-bind, wherein the illegitimacy of some social identities …
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Techno-Racism: Heidegger's Philosophy of Technology and Critical Philosophies of Race
<p>Racism continues to be a pressing problem in Western Society. In some ways it even makes a great deal of sense to think about racism as a tool of political power. My dissertation explores the way in which racism is informed by the underlying social structure of whiteness, and the way that modern …
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The Tension between Art and Science in Historical Writing.
<p>A perennial question in the philosophy of history is whether history is a science or an art. This thesis contests that this question constitutes a false dichotomy, limiting the discussion in such a way as to exclude other possibilities of understanding the nature of the historical …