The Human Vocation In German Philosophy

Author : Anne Pollok
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135016609X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Human Vocation in German Philosophy written by Anne Pollok and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 18th-century Germany philosophers were occupied with questions of who we are and what we should be. Can the individual fulfill its vocation or is this possible only for humanity as a whole? Is significant progress towards perfection in any way possible for me or just for me as part of humanity? By following the origin and nature of these debates, this collection sheds light on the vocation of humanity in early German philosophy. Featuring translations of Spalding's Contemplation on the Vocation of the Human Being in its first version from 1748 and an extended translation of Abbt's and Mendelssohn's epistolary discussion around the Doubts and the Oracle from 1767, newly-commissioned chapters cover Johann Gottfried Herder's inherently cultural concept of the human being, Immanuel Kant's transformative interplay of moral and natural aspects, and the notion of metempsychosis in Fichte's work inspired by two neglected philosophers, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Johann Georg Schlosser. Opening further lines of inquiry, contributors address questions about the adaptations of Spalding's work that focus on the vocation of women as wife, mother or citizen. Exploring the multitude of ways 18th-century German thinkers understand our position in the world, this volume captures major changes in metaphysics and anthropology and enriches current debates within modern philosophy.

Author : Anne Pollok
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350166081
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Human Vocation in German Philosophy written by Anne Pollok and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 18th-century Germany philosophers were occupied with questions of who we are and what we should be. Can the individual fulfill its vocation or is this possible only for humanity as a whole? Is significant progress towards perfection in any way possible for me or just for me as part of humanity? By following the origin and nature of these debates, this collection sheds light on the vocation of humanity in early German philosophy. Featuring translations of Spalding's Contemplation on the Vocation of the Human Being in its first version from 1748 and an extended translation of Abbt's and Mendelssohn's epistolary discussion around the Doubts and the Oracle from 1767, newly-commissioned chapters cover Johann Gottfried Herder's inherently cultural concept of the human being, Immanuel Kant's transformative interplay of moral and natural aspects, and the notion of metempsychosis in Fichte's work inspired by two neglected philosophers, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Johann Georg Schlosser. Opening further lines of inquiry, contributors address questions about the adaptations of Spalding's work that focus on the vocation of women as wife, mother or citizen. Exploring the multitude of ways 18th-century German thinkers understand our position in the world, this volume captures major changes in metaphysics and anthropology and enriches current debates within modern philosophy.

Author : Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vocation of Man written by Johann Gottlieb Fichte and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vocation of Man by Johann Fichte Gottlieb, first published in 1910, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Author : Kristin Gjesdal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190066237
Total Pages : 801 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition written by Kristin Gjesdal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Oxford Handbook celebrates the work of trailblazing women in the history of modern philosophy. Through thirty-one original chapters, it engages with the work of women philosophers spanning the long nineteenth century in the German tradition, and covers women's contribution to major philosophical movements, including romanticism and idealism, socialism, and Marxism, Nietzscheanism, feminism, phenomenology, and neo-Kantianism. It opens with a section on figures, offering essays focused on fifteen thinkers in this tradition, before moving on to sections of essays on movement and topics. Across the volume's chapters, essays examine women's contributions to key philosophical areas such as epistemology and metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, social and political philosophy, ecology, education, and the philosophy of nature.

Author : Daniel Breazeale
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438447655
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fichte's Vocation of Man written by Daniel Breazeale and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for a general audience during a period of intense controversy in the German philosophical community, J. G. Fichte's short book The Vocation of Man (1800) is both an introduction to and a defense of his philosophical system, and is one of the best-known contributions to German Idealism. This collection of new essays reflects a wide and instructive variety of philosophical and hermeneutic approaches, which combine to cast new light upon Fichte's familiar text. The contributors highlight some of the overlooked complexities and implications of The Vocation of Man and situate it firmly within the intellectual context within which it was originally written, relating it to the positions of Kant, Hegel, Schelling, Schlegel, Jacobi, and others. In addition, the essays relate the text to issues of contemporary concern such as the limits of language, the character of rational agency, the problem of evil, the relation of theoretical knowledge to practical belief, and the dialectic of judgment.

Author : Ernst Behler
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826403070
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of German Idealism: Fichte, Jacobi, and Schelling written by Ernst Behler and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1987-04-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The texts in this volume constitute highlights in the movement called transcendental idealism. Includes: Fichte's, "Some Lectures Concerning the Scholar's Vocation," and "A Crystal Clear Report to the General Public..."; Jacobi's, "On Faith and Knowledge in Response to Schelling and Hegel," and "Open Letter to Fichte, 1799"; an anonymous author's "The Oldest Systematic Program of German Idealism, 1797"; and Schelling's "Ideas on a Philosophy of Nature as an Introduction to the Study of This Science," "Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom and Related Matters," and other texts. (For other texts in German Philosophy see vols. 5, 13, 24, 27, 40, 48, and 78.)>

Author : Frederick C. Beiser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198768710
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weltschmerz written by Frederick C. Beiser and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick C. Beiser presents a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy from the 1860s to c. 1900: the theory that life is not worth living. He explores its major defenders and chief critics, and examines how the theory redirected German philosophy away from the logic of the sciences and toward an examination of the value of life.

Author : Werner Brock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107415977
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Contemporary German Philosophy written by Werner Brock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1935, this book charts the development of philosophy in Germany from German Humanism to Heidegger and his contemporaries. Brock also devotes an entire chapter to the lasting impact of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard on German philosophy. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of German philosophy and its presentation before WWII.

Author : George di Giovanni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113944462X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom and Religion in Kant and his Immediate Successors written by George di Giovanni and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-07 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theologians of the late German Enlightenment saw in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason a new rational defence of their Christian faith. In fact, Kant's critical theory of meaning and moral law totally subverted the spirit of that faith. This challenging new study examines the contribution made by the Critique of Pure Reason to this change of meaning. George di Giovanni stresses the revolutionary character of Kant's critical thought but also reveals how this thought was being held hostage to unwarranted metaphysical assumptions that caused much confusion and rendered the First Critique vulnerable to being reabsorbed into modes of thought typical of Enlightenment popular philosophy. Amongst the striking features of this book are nuanced interpretations of Jacobi and Reinhold, a lucid exposition of Fichte's early thought, and a rare, detailed account of Enlightenment popular philosophy.

Author : Herbert Schnädelbach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521296465
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy in Germany 1831-1933 written by Herbert Schnädelbach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-06-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hundred years covered by this book, from the death of Hegel to the establishment of the Third Reich, is often regarded as the heyday of German philosophy, of metaphysics in the grand style and of what J. S. Mill characterised as 'the German or a priori view of human knowledge'. Yet apart from selective attention to individual figures, such as Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Husserl or Heidegger, little is known by English-speaking philosophers of most of the animating concerns and continuing traditions of German philosophy of the time. This book sets out to present a detailed history of the period, adopting a thematic approach which emphasises the more distinctive German approach. It is hoped that the growing but piecemeal interest in German philosophy will be both stimulated and consolidated by this book, which should also interest individuals working in related areas such as the history of ideas, religious studies and the history of science.