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E-BooksThe Metaphysics of German Idealism



The Metaphysics of German Idealism
Free Download The Metaphysics of German Idealism: A New Interpretation of Schelling's Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom and Matters Connected Therewith (1809)
by Martin Heidegger, Ian Alexander Moore
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1509540105 | 258 Pages | PDF (conv) | 0.79 MB



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E-BooksGerman Idealism and the Question of System



German Idealism and the Question of System
Free Download John Sallis, "German Idealism and the Question of System "
English | ISBN: 0253069718 | 2024 | 184 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 7 MB
This volume in the Collected Writings of John Sallis presents his lecture course on German Idealism, tracing its development from the reception of Kant through the works of Fichte and Schelling. With insightful interpretations of key texts, John Sallis demonstrates the enduring power of post-Kantian thought―especially with respect to freedom, the relation of subject to object, and the role of the imagination. He shows that what underlies the development of German Idealism is a concern with the question of system and the nature of philosophy itself.



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E-BooksThe Implications of Evolution for Metaphysics Theism, Idealism, and Naturalism



The Implications of Evolution for Metaphysics Theism, Idealism, and Naturalism
Free Download David H. Gordon, "The Implications of Evolution for Metaphysics: Theism, Idealism, and Naturalism"
English | ISBN: 1666923729 | 2023 | 364 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1061 KB + 3 MB
After the nineteenth-century "turn from idealism," when idealist philosophies were largely abandoned for materialist ones, many analytic philosophers have adhered to scientific naturalism as the new orthodoxy, largely due to the success of scientific advancements. The New Atheists, such as Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins, claim it is Darwin who deserves much of the credit for repudiating the traditional Mind-first world view. In The Implications of Evolution for Metaphysics: Theism, Idealism, and Naturalism, David H. Gordon explores questions such as: Is it true that evolution is incompatible with theism and necessarily results in naturalism? Is it possible, as naturalism maintains, that everything can be reduced to physical processes? Or are there too many recalcitrant phenomena that defy reduction? Can the epistemological conditions for metaphysical knowledge be met? If the underdetermination of theory allows for multiple metaphysical theories to cover the same phenomena, with each offering an epistemically adequate explanation, then neither naturalism nor theism can be asserted to be objectively true. Nevertheless, it is possible to favor one over the other based on overall coherence and explanatory power.



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E-BooksEmbodied Idealism Merleau–Ponty's Transcendental Philosophy



Embodied Idealism Merleau–Ponty's Transcendental Philosophy
Free Download Dr Joseph Berendzen, "Embodied Idealism: Merleau-Ponty's Transcendental Philosophy"
English | ISBN: 0192874764 | 2023 | 288 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1154 KB + 2 MB
Embodied Idealism argues that Maurice Merleau-Ponty's early thought - primarily as found in The Structure of Behavior and Phenomenology of Perception - stands as a form of transcendental idealism. This interpretation runs against the grain of much of the Merleau-Ponty scholarship, and opposing interpretations are not without support. Merleau-Ponty is at points highly critical of idealism in his early works. Also, his emphasis on embodiment would seem to run counter to the idealist view that the mental is central to reality.



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E-BooksWittgenstein on Realism and Idealism



Wittgenstein on Realism and Idealism
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English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009475630 | 80 Pages | PDF (True) | 0.7 MB
This Element concerns Wittgenstein's evolving attitude toward the opposition between realism and idealism in philosophy. Despite the marked - and sometimes radical - changes Wittgenstein's thinking undergoes from the early to the middle to the later period, there is an underlying continuity in terms of his unwillingness at any point to endorse either position in a straightforward manner. Instead, Wittgenstein can be understood as rejecting both positions, while nonetheless seeing insights in each position worth retaining. The author traces these "neither-nor" and "both-and" strands of Wittgenstein's attitude toward realism and idealism to his - again, evolving - insistence on seeing language and thought as worldly phenomena. That thought and language are about the world and happen amidst the world they are about undermines the attempt to formulate any kind of general thesis concerning their interrelation.



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E-BooksIdealism after Existentialism



Idealism after Existentialism
Free Download N. N. Trakakis, "Idealism after Existentialism "
English | ISBN: 1032457708 | 2023 | 104 pages | PDF | 1241 KB
A century ago the dominant philosophical outlook was not some form of materialism or naturalism, but idealism. However, this way of thinking about reality fell out of favour in the Anglo-American analytic tradition as well as the Continental schools of the twentieth century.



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E-BooksAfter Parmenides Idealism, Realism, and Epistemic Constructivism



After Parmenides Idealism, Realism, and Epistemic Constructivism
After Parmenides: Idealism, Realism, and Epistemic Constructivism By Tom Rockmore
2021 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 022679542X | PDF | 2 MB
Engages with one of the oldest philosophical problems-the relationship between thought and being-and offers a fresh perspective with which to approach the long history of this puzzle. In After Parmenides, Tom Rockmore takes us all the way back to the beginning of Western philosophy, when Parmenides asserted that thought and being are the same.This idea created a division between what the mind constructs as knowable entities and the idea that there is also a mind-independent real, which we can know or fail to know. Rockmore argues that we need to give up on the idea of knowing the real as it is, and instead focus on the objects of cognition that our mind constructs. Though we cannot know mind-independent objects as they "really" are, we can and do know objects as they appear to us.After Parmenides charts the continual engagement with these ideas of the real and the knowable throughout philosophical history from Plato and Aristotle to Descartes, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Marx, and others. This ambitious book shows how new connections can be made in the history of philosophy when it is reread through a new lens.



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E-BooksThe Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Feminist Philosophy



The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Feminist Philosophy
Susanne Lettow, "The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Feminist Philosophy "
English | ISBN: 3031131223 | 2022 | 498 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This book gives a comprehensive overview of the ways in which the relation between German Idealism and feminist philosophy has been explored. It demonstrates the significance of German Idealism for feminist philosophy, and simultaneously brings out the relevance of feminist readings and interpretations for a critical understanding of German Idealism.



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E-BooksPerception and Idealism An Essay on How the World Manifests Itself to Us, and How It (Probably) Is in Itself



Perception and Idealism An Essay on How the World Manifests Itself to Us, and How It (Probably) Is in Itself
Perception and Idealism: An Essay on How the World Manifests Itself to Us, and How It (Probably) Is in Itself by Howard Robinson
English | February 17, 2023 | ISBN: 019284556X | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Perception and Idealism takes up two long-standing philosophical problems: how perception makes objects manifest to us, and what the world must be like for objects to be manifest in that way. Part I addresses the nature of perception. A detailed discussion of contemporary versions of naïve realist and of intentionalist theories is provided, and refutations offered of both. Robinson argues that sense-datum theory is not subject to any of the vices normally attributed to it, but in fact allows one to say that we directly perceive objects as being the way that they naturally manifest themselves to creatures like us. The sense-datum theory can be reconciled with a form of direct realism, once one understands properly the cognitive and the phenomenal components in perception, a relationship which intentionalist theories confuse. As perception makes us aware of objects as they manifest themselves to us, this leaves open the question of what they are like in themselves. This is the topic of Part II. A variety of realist conceptions of the material world are considered and found to be either empty or less plausible than idealism: the 'powers' conception of matter, Lewis's quiddities, Esfeld's 'matter points', and quantum theory. The problem of giving a realist account of space is also developed. Turning to mentalist options, simple phenomenalism and panpsychism are discussed and rejected. Robinson concludes that Berkeley's theistic phenomenalism, or idealism, is the most plausible account.



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E-BooksAnglo-American Idealism Thinkers and Ideas



Anglo-American Idealism Thinkers and Ideas
Anglo-American Idealism: Thinkers and Ideas By James Connelly (editor), Stamatoula Panagakou (editor)
2010 | 389 Pages | ISBN: 3039108956 | PDF | 3 MB
This volume is devoted to a critical discussion and re-appraisal of the work of Anglo-American Idealists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Idealism was the dominant philosophy in Britain and the entire English-speaking world during the last decades of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. The British Idealists made important contributions to logic, metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of history, philosophy of religion and philosophy of mind. Their legacy awaits further exploration and reassessment, and this book is a contribution to this task. The essays in this collection display many aspects of contemporary concern with idealistic philosophy: they range from treatments of logic to consideration of the Absolute, personal idealism, the philosophy of religion, philosophy of art, philosophy of action, and moral and political philosophy. During the first decade of the twenty-first century, the work of the Anglo-American Idealists has once again been widely discussed and re-considered, and new pathways of research and investigation have been opened.



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