Modern Individuality in Hegel's Practical Philosophy

Modern Individuality in Hegel's Practical Philosophy
Author: Erzsébet Rózsa
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2012-10-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004234675

Modern individuality is the not-so-secret protagonist of Hegel’s practical philosophy. In the framework of spirit, Hegel presents some basic features of the individual’s way of life, lifeworld, self-interpreation, and self-determination, which can also be timely in shaping our own personal and social identities.

Rethinking Georg Simmel's Social Philosophy

Rethinking Georg Simmel's Social Philosophy
Author: Ferdinand Fellmann
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2020-11-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030573516

This textbook examines interaction, reciprocity, dualism, conflict, and personality in the work of Georg Simmel. These themes, which made Simmel the founder of relational sociology, are presented uniquely in the light of intimate relations. According to Simmel, intimate relations rather than the individual constitute the fundamental stratum of human culture. By relating objective social facts to subjective experience, Simmel also opened up a new way of understanding human life in the early 20th century. Using Simmel’s theory of reciprocity, this book follows an innovative method of interpretation, providing a quantitative perspective of lived experience. This book analyzes Simmel’s ideas from the viewpoint of modern hermeneutical philosophy and sociology. Fellmann expertly presents the historical context of Simmel’s concepts, and their influence on other sociologists and philosophers, especially in Germany. Written in an engaging style, this book is suitable as a core text in undergraduate and graduate courses on sociological theory and continental philosophy. Additionally, given the new focus on Simmel and intimate relations, the book is of interest to scholars of relational sociology, history of sociology, continental philosophy, history of philosophy, philosophy of culture, and philosophical anthropology.

Rationality within Modern Psychological Theory

Rationality within Modern Psychological Theory
Author: James A. Harold
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2016-06-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1498519717

Rationality within Modern Psychological Theory examines the rational and irrational dimensions of human nature and of the psyche and logos. Harold combines the traditionally divided views of classical philosophy’s affirmation of the existence of intellect and modern psychology’s emphasis on immanent psychological factors over rational, transcendent relations. By accepting the power of being in an adequate relation to reality, while still admitting the manifold ways that people evade truth and reality, psychologists will be able to emphasize the power of an individual to establish a truthful relation with reality. This book is recommended for scholars of psychology and philosophy.

An Introduction To Nineteenth-century Russian Slavophilism

An Introduction To Nineteenth-century Russian Slavophilism
Author: Peter K. Christoff
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2019-03-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429722494

This book is written based on vigorous and prolonged debates between the Slavophils and proponents of Russian Slavophilism's principal ideological rival, Westernism, in the mid-nineteenth century. It presents the analysis and evaluation of Iu. F. Samarin's dissertation.

Possibility, Agency, and Individuality in Leibniz's Metaphysics

Possibility, Agency, and Individuality in Leibniz's Metaphysics
Author: Ohad Nachtomy
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2007-06-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1402052456

This book reveals a thread that runs through Leibniz’s metaphysics: from his logical notion of possible individuals to his notion of actual, nested ones. It presents Leibniz’s subtle approach to possibility and explores some of its consequential repercussions in his metaphysics. The book provides an original approach to the questions of individuation and relations in Leibniz, offering a novel account of Leibniz’s notion of Nested Individuals.

Individuation and Identity in Early Modern Philosophy

Individuation and Identity in Early Modern Philosophy
Author: Kenneth F. Barber
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1994-07-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0791495736

Philosophy in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries has traditionally been characterized as being primarily concerned with epistemological issues. This book is not intended to overturn this characterization but rather to balance it through an examination of equally important metaphysical, or ontological, positions held, explicitly or implicitly, by philosophers in this period. Major philosophers whose views are discussed in this book include Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Leibniz, Wolff, and Kant. In addition, the contributors of minor Cartesians, especially Regis and Desgabets, are analyzed in a separate chapter. Although the views of early modern philosophers on individuation and identity have been discussed before, these discussions have usually been treated as asides in a larger context. This book is the first to concentrate on the problems of individuation and identity in early modern philosophy and to trace their philosophical development through the period in a coherent way.

Non-Reflexive Logics, Non-Individuals, and the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics

Non-Reflexive Logics, Non-Individuals, and the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
Author: Jonas R. B. Arenhart
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2023-09-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3031318404

This book discusses the philosophical work of Décio Krause. Non-individuality, as a new metaphysical category, was thought to be strongly supported by quantum mechanics. No one did more to promote this idea than the Brazilian philosopher Décio Krause, whose works on the metaphysics and logic of non-individuality are now widely regarded as part of the consolidated literature on the subject. This volume brings together chapters elaborating on the ideas put forward and defended by Krause, developing them in many different directions, commenting on aspects not completely developed so far, and, more importantly, critically addressing their current formulations and defenses by Krause himself. Given that Krause’s ideas do connect directly and indirectly with a wide array of subjects, such as the philosophy of quantum mechanics, more broadly understood, the philosophy of logic and logical philosophy, non-classical logics, metaphysics, and ontology, this volume contains important material for the research on logic and foundations of science, broadly understood. All the invited contributors have already worked with the ideas developed by Décio (some of them still work with them), being also distinct authors and extremely relevant in their areas of expertise. The volume is aimed at philosophers, including those of physics and quantum mechanics.