Questions tagged [german-philosophy]
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Is it ethical to convince someone to get vaccinated?
I'm currently writing about the ethics of vaccinations, and I have two long-standing concerns about the matter. "Is refusing vaccination a morally justifiable position?" will be my question. From what I've read, it doesn't appear to be the case. I'm…
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What is the motivation of all individuals to stay alive?
What keeps an individual alive?
If we make the following assumptions:
There is nothing after death, only black. No heaven, no hell, no rebirth.
So we don't take anything with us after death and therefore don't remember our life
Life includes…
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What did Leibniz mean by saying this is the 'best of all possible worlds'?
This was famously satirised by Voltaire in Candide.
But what did Leibniz mean by this? My intuitive understanding is this must be due to Leibniz's attempt at the problem of evil in Christian Theology.
Given that God is a perfect being, he could not…
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Why are mathematical judgments legitimate while metaphysical are not, according to Kant's CPR?
In my reading of Kant's CPR (I mention this because I don't want an answer according to his other critiques), I don't seem to understand on what basis is Kant distinguishing statements in math and statements in theology.
For instance, it is a…
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Is German idealism ontological, epistemic, or something more abstract?
On one hand Kant's transcendental idealism seems purely ontological: His noumena/phenomena distinction is essentially a form of dualism. Add to that: Marx considered himself a materialist in opposition to Hegel's idealism.
These two thoughts give…
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What does "aggregative mechanical thought" mean in Frege's works?
In *The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry Into the Concept of Number" by G. Frege pages XV and XVi we read:
A typical crudity confronts me, when I find calculation
described as "aggregative mechanical thought". I doubt
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Are the arguments of the Critique of Pure Reason still considered?
Realizing its importance in intellectual history, I am considering an intense study of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. However, I wonder what the current status of the text is?
To clarify: has it survived the scrutiny of philosophers since its…
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How does one read Nietzsche "properly"?
This question stems from a much larger question that I have about reading philosophy but as I learned through a meta post, that question would be too broad for stackexchange. So, I have attempted it to narrow it down to a specific philosopher.
I…
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Why does Schelling characterise his philosophy as Positive as opposed to the Negative Philosophy of Kant and Hegel?
According to the Routledges History of Philosophy, Vol 6 - The Age of German Idealism, Schelling
had begun to characterize his new standpoint as “positive philosophy,” in contradistinction to the purely “negative” philosophy of Kant, Fichte, and…
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What is the appropriate English translation of the German terms "Realität" and "Wirklichkeit"?
In epistemology & ontology "Realität" relates to what we perceive as our environment - objects, sounds,.... So a optical illusion would be not real in sense of "Wirklichkeit", its not a real existing part/object of the universe, but perceived and…
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Hegel's bibliography: where to find the 1801 and 1817 Lectures on Logic and Metaphysics? ( English or German version)
I cannot find the track on the internet of the english translation of a book published in french as :
Hegel, Leçons de logique et de métaphysique ( Heidelberg, 1817).
Could anyone tell me under which title these "Heidelberg 1817 lectures on logic…
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Isn't Nietzsche's overman a replacement for God?
Nietzsche claimed that "we killed God". Thus, as Nietzsche thought, it would result in nihilism.
He also "introduced" an idea of the overman. This question is not about what the overman is. But I'm asking how is the overman different from, say,…
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Is there anything left in contemporary epistemology and science from the German Idealism?
Kant, Reinhold, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel.. Is there anything left from the Kantian movement today in the thoughts of knowledge and nature? The question is focused especially after Popper essentially "removed" (though I don't know if successfully,…
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Schelling: from where, or how exactly, do the a priori ideas come?
I'm reading Schelling's System of Transcendental Idealism, and in the end of the 3rd part (the end of the theoretical philosophy) schelling disproves the idea that a priori ideas are inherent in us from birth, and the idea that they come from an…
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Why is Hegel more important than Schelling?
I am curious why Hegel became more important than Schelling.
First of all, how would Schelling's ideas differ from Hegel's? I read that there are some supernatural elements in Schelling's, but do not know specifically.
Next, are Schelling's later…
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