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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"transcendental philosophy"”.
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Kant on Time: Self-Affection and the Constitution of Objectivity in Transcendental Philosophy
… interpretation of the role time plays in Kant’s transcendental idealism. A significant part of Kant scholarship on the Critiques tends to assume that time, as understood in transcendental philosophy, is solely a formal property of intuition. This assumption has led several commentators to …
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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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Maimon's Post-Kantian Skepticism
… Kantian project detailed in Maimon’s Essay on Transcendental Philosophy played a significant role in determining the criteria of success for post-Kantian philosophy, and was thus crucial to the early development of German Idealism. Key aspects of Maimon’s transcendental philosophy remain, …
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Historical Realism and Stoic Heroes in the Work of John Williams
… who embody the tenets of stoic and Emersonian transcendental philosophy, respectively. Williams uses these characters to promote and critique preconceived notions of heroic masculinity as structured within these philosophies. Through an analysis of form, this thesis will explore how Williams …
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Kant's Ontology: Reality and the Formal Structure of the First Person Perspective
This work argues that Kant's transcendental philosophy is built upon the insight that any judgment about what there is or what is possible must emerge from an existential perspective rather than a purely logical one. Rather than a mere account of our conceptual resources, I argue that Kant's goal …
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Dooyeweerdian philosophy, knowledge-based systems, and sustainability
This thesis explores using Dooyeweerdian philosophy as a foundation forconstructing knowledge-based system (KBS) in complex, ill-structured andhuman intensive domains.Dooyeweerd's transcendental philosophy is a relatively recent phenomenon inthe medium of the English language, and has only recently …
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Carlyle And The Economics Of Terror: A Study Of Revisionary Gothicism In "the French Revolution"
… overcomes with the motivating dynamics of German Transcendental Philosophy. To this end, paper money is exposed as an act of misrepresentation; its validity substantiated by arbitrary and conventional agreement, paper money remains a "wagered" word, a "contractual "sign or general equivalent. In …
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Transient Constellations: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Actuality of Idealism
… I pose questions regarding the actuality of philosophy, considering how thought might open itself towards a fuller spectrum of experience, while nonetheless remaining systematic, creating new (inter)disciplinary models of philosophy which tarry with the para-philosophical domains of art and …
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Experience, Time, and the Subject: Deleuze's Transformation of Kant's Critical Philosophy
… new conception 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 …
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The role of sensus communis in Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Locke and Kant
… study of the "Sensus Communis" in the Philosophy of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Locke, Leibniz and Kant. The conception of the "Sensus Communis" was first introduced in the field of psychological study by Aristotle. In the De Anima, after he examined the function of each peripheral …
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Besonderung und Immanenz
Zentrales Anliegen dieser Arbeit ist ein historisch-systematisches Verständnis der Philosophischen Anthropologie Helmuth Plessners im Zusammenhang mit zentralen theoretischen Entwicklungen der klassischen deutschen Philosophie. Im philosophischen Problemrahmen von Besonderung und Immanenz werden …