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Showing 1 to 20 of 231 for “"idealism"”.
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The Grounds of Transcendental Idealism
… of ground in the metaphysics of transcendental idealism. In the first two papers, I provide novel reconstructions of Kant’s two main arguments for transcendental idealism. I show that both arguments rely on assumptions about the metaphysics and epistemology of ground that were commonplace in …
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KANT’S DOCTRINE OF TRANSCENDENTAL IDEALISM
… of Kant’s doctrine of transcendental idealism as presented in the Critique of Pure Reason. I aim to give a consensus interpretation by overcoming past errors in interpreting this doctrine. I support my interpretation through a textual exegesis of the Critique of Pure Reason with a …
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German Idealism, Analytic Philosophy, and Realism
… </p><p> Of all the myriad formulations of idealism, Analytic Philosophers have consistently singled out German Idealism to either reject or misappropriate for its own ends. The most significant and provocative occurrences of this trend can be found in the writings of Moore, Russell, …
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Idealism in the novels of Sinclair Lewis.
… his literary career Sinclair Lewis displayed idealism in his novels, though, with the exception of Arrowsmith, he became more realistic as he grew older. To trace his idealism, one may divide his literary career into three periods suggested by Geoffrey Moore in his essay "Sinclair Lewis: A …
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Royce and Perry on Idealism and Realism
This thesis is primarily an attempt to reconstruct the debate between Josiah Royce and Ralph Barton Perry concerning the viability of both the realist and idealist positions. Secondarily, I will show that this debate is a crucial part of an adequate understanding of the changes that took place in …
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The Transformation of Kant's Transcendental Idealism: Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre
… against the background of Kant's transcendental idealism. Although his system is formulated within the context of the reconstruction of Kant's transcendental idealism, Fichte claims to posses the sole correct interpretation of Kant's view. He further asserts that he understands Kant better than …
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Transient Constellations: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Actuality of Idealism
… Benjamin in critical constellation with German Idealism, specifically G.W.F. Hegel and F.W.J. Schelling. I explore how Adorno and Benjamin deconstruct and refashion Idealist notions, while also providing the post-Idealist theoretical armature to read Idealism in speculative directions. Through …
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A fractured dialectic: Søren Kierkegaard between idealism and materialism
… work against the backdrop of 19th century German idealism. Along with an emphasis on a systematic interpretation of a thinker usually considered to be wholly anti-systematic in aim and orientation, I also aim to show that through developing an ontological interpretation of the work of Kierkegaard …
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Transcendental Idealism, Transcendental Realism, and the Possibility of Objective Reference
… understand why Kant thinks that transcendental idealism can secure empirical realism, the idea that there really exists an objective world that we can come to know through experience. I maintain that, according to Kant, the possibility of coming to know objective reality depends upon the …
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Transcendental Idealism, Transcendental Realism, and the Possibility of Objective Reference
… understand why Kant thinks that transcendental idealism can secure empirical realism, the idea that there really exists an objective world that we can come to know through experience. I maintain that, according to Kant, the possibility of coming to know objective reality depends upon the …
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The Poetics of Emerson: An Emersonian Adaptation of Platonic Idealism
… may he, the genuine inspiration and inherent idealism which Emerson offers are significant in their potential influence. |It is, accordingly, the purpose of this study to show how the basic elements of Platonism prevail in the nature, functions, and method of Emerson’s ideal "Poet" and …
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Idealism and Actualization. Saint-Just in Theory, Practice, and Exigency
<p>Louis-Antoine Léon de Saint-Just (1767-1794) was a revolutionary, a statesman, and a political philosopher, yet it is largely only as a revolutionary that he is remembered. As a political person who occupied these three different but overlapping roles, Saint-Just is ideal as the subject and …
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Toward World Englishes Writing: Is It Idealism in the Introductory Composition Class?
The purpose of the present study is to discover how teaching college introductory composition for international students within the World Englishes paradigm looks like. The study was conducted through questionnaires, blog entries, and interviews across three semesters in a public university in …
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The Workers' Educational Association and the Pursuit of Oxford Idealism, 1909-1949
… examines the practical application of Oxford Idealism to education reform and the adult education movement. According to Idealist philosophy, enlightened and active citizenship was the cornerstone of a participatory democracy. This thesis thus explores how Oxford Idealists used the Workers’ …
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Spenser's "Inward Ey": Poetics, Lexicography, and the Motivations for Edmund Spenser's Linguistic Idealism
… seen as "anti-linguistic" to the extent that his idealism extols the power of thought while depicting speech as a corrupting monster--most notably the Blatant Beast of <italic>The Legend of Courtesy</italic>, Book 6 of <italic>The Faerie Queene</italic>. My thesis re-examines Spenser's antipathies …
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Realism and idealism in the harmonization of contract law in the European Union
The advantages of enhanced cross-border trade among the member states are emphasized by advocates of the harmonization of law in the European Union, a principle which has been included in each of the treaties of accession. Following political events in 1989, the concept of a Europe-wide law of …
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Early Nineteenth Century German Idealism and Historical Perspectives in Beethoven's Eroica Variations, Op. 35
… stages of the philosophical thought of German Idealism. The philosophical systems of the post-Kantian generation were housed in the values of the Goethezeit, in which the concept of self was regarded as fundamental for the worldview. In Germany these systems generated a new intellectual ethos …
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