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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. ...
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What is the motivation of all individuals to stay alive?
I have never read much philosophical stuff and come from physics/IT, but the subject interests me.
What keeps an individual alive?
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There is nothing after death, ...
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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....
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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What should I read before reading Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit"?
Are there some writings that I should make myself familiar with beforehand, in order to rightly understand Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit?
I am thinking of works like
Spinoza's Ethics
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 "...
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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 ...
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Are there better terms to translate Present-at-hand and Ready-to-hand?
These are both Heideggerian terms.
Present-at-hand translates vorhanden and Vorhandenheit. It roughly denotes theoretical knowledge.
Ready-to-hand translates griffbereit, zuhanden and Zuhandenheit. ...
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Interpretation of Nietzsche's "We have art in order not to die of the truth."
Can someone please shed some light on the following quote given by German Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche:-
We have art in order not to die of the truth (The Will to Power §822).
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How does Fichte account for the existence of inter-subjective reality?
I have read many entries on Fichte online. There is never any reference to the question of the origin of inter-subjective reality. How do we apparently see the same world?
There does not seem to be ...
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Contemporary philosophers on intellectual intuition?
The 18th-19th century German philosophers (the so-called "German Idealists"), and other Post-kantian philosophers have used the term "intellectual intuition" in slightly different ways, but generally ...
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Why is Plato's Idealism and German Idealism so different?
Plato's Idealism seems to imply an objectivity and an anti-pluralism, instead rationalizing forms into main groups yet German Idealism seems to do just the opposite. I was wondering why the use of the ...
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On Kant's use of "überhaupt" [in general] and "allgemein" [general]
What's the difference between 'überhaupt' and 'allgemein'?
I'm still not fully in the grasp of what Kant exactly mean when he uses 'überhaupt' and 'allgemein'. In German, these are completely ...
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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 ...
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Does Rand appropriate Kant's Categorical Imperative?
Rand doesn't explicitly refer to Kant in her ouevre, however in her first essay in her book Objectivist Ethics, Rand writes:
The basic social principle of the Objectivist ethics is that just as ...
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I need help understanding Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
I need help in understanding Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason § 18 and 19. What Kant does there suggests an alternative to the idea that a concept represents a different object. So the question is about ...
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Conceptual distinction between " strength" , " force" and " power"?
Philosophers distinguish between 2 kinds of " powers": moral powers ( authority, right to order something) which corresponds to potestas in Latin and " physical power" ( ability to do something, or to ...
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By its definition, is it possible the thing-in-itself is also a phenomenon?
The transcendental philosophy seperate famously seperate between the thing-as-itself and the phenomenon the derives from it, by vague comparison, similar to Plato's ideas.
My question is, is it ...
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What are the limitations of Hegels Dialectic that Schelling identified?
According to this question:
Marx did not need to invert historical idealism because Schelling had already shown the limitations of the dialectic process
Hegels dialectic, roughly, is manifested in ...
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Kant's Prolegomena §6 text interpretation "might reveal itself through these its effects"
I'm having a hard time trying to interpret this part of the text:
Does not this capacity, since it is not, and cannot be, based on experience, presuppose some a priori basis for cognition, which lies ...
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Are Ideas Noumenal?
I've been studying Kant's philosophy recently and I haven't been able to get something straight.
Quick question here: How does Kant's distinction between phenomena/noumena apply to ideas and thoughts? ...
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Does the Evolution Theory contradict Kant's Metaphysics?
I recently asked a series of questions about ET, and this is one of them :)
Intuitively, it seems to me that ET is supposed to contradict Kant's (or more generally, the German Idealism's) Metaphysics ...
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Any contemporary supporter Hartmann's vitalizm?
Eduard von Hartmann's view of vitalizm follows a little twist of Schelling’s combination of vitalizm and mechanism. I like his approach for vitalizm view of evolution theory, and it's interesting to ...
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Have anyone found a good solution to Kant's dualistic approach to consciousness?
Kant, in his studies of transcendental idealism, made the "illogical gap" between theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy, at the end of theoretical study, by requiring the contemplation of ...
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Name of philosopher who wrote about language mutations
Could you please tell me the name of a philosopher who wrote text about language mutations?
As far as I remember he has 'Max' in the name.
More then, one day he said something like: "Commune kills ...
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Where does Kant say that we are unable to understand God on the basis on his representation in the bible?
I believe the passage I am looking for comes from Critique of Pure Reason. He says something to the effect that we are unable to understand how the representation of God can be both both totally ...
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Why did Heidegger chose to delay the publications of his Beiträge zur Philosophie?
Heidegger's Beiträge (Contributions to philosophy) were published with other writings in 1989, 50 years after their completion, as per Heidegger wish. Do we have any indication from Heidegger, veiled ...
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How do Advaitans respond to Hegel's Absolute Idealism?
I have read quite a bit of Hindu philosophy, particularly that of the Advaitan school, and I'm trying to improve my understanding of German Idealism.
My understanding of Hegel's Absolute is that it is ...
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Questions about Marx's second, third, and fourth thesis in ''Theses on Feuerbach''
The question whether objective truth can be attributed to human thinking is not a question of theory but is a practical question.
a. What does Marx mean here by ”objective truth,” what is he alluding ...
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What is the Schillerian concept for sublime that at the same time means attraction and repulsion?
There is German word that Schiller uses to explain beauty, a word that at the same time means attraction and repulse.
He uses that word instead of the Kantian "awe" for The Sublime.
Does anyone ...
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Is Schopenhauer's World Will generally the same as Schelling’s Absolute Self?
Schopenhauer obviously learns from the German Idealists tradition of assuming an unconscious force acting on the world (or "underneath" it), but Schopenhauer's take is that this force is a blind will, ...
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What is the difference between Schelling and Hegel's philosophies
Two of the biggest German Idealism movement, Schelling and Hegel, have a very similar line of thought. I was wondering a simple question (with probably a long and complex question): What is the ...
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Buber's "It-world": original German? [closed]
Does anyone know how what Kaufman renders as "It-world" (in "I and Thou") appears in the original German?
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Has Oswald Spengler ever been married or in a relationship with a woman and how did this influence his philosophical views? [closed]
I am asking this question in order to find out how a relationship or the absence thereof has influenced his philosophy and writings. He has been heavily influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche who has never ...
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"The object of reflection./ L'objet de la réflexion." ( A 2016 " agrégation de philosophie " paper)
Source : Rapport de jury de l'agrégation externe de philosophie 2016 , présenté par Paul Mathias, Inspecteur Général de l'Education Nationale , page 15
https://philosophie.ac-versailles.fr/IMG/pdf/rj-...
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Looking for a good online lecture series on Husserl's Ideas 1
I just started reading Husserl's ideas 1 and looking for a good lecture series to follow along with. Willing to pay, but would prefer a free resource on YouTube or the like. Also open to other ...
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"Thing becoming vs Thing become" - What is meant by this phrase? What is its origin/Context?
I've been reading a lot of German classics for the last couple of years, and I keep bumping into the (para)phrase "The thing become" and "The thing becoming". I remember one of the ...
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Analytic vs Dialectic logic
What are analytic and dialectic logic in Kantian philosophy? What's the difference between them and why can't we use analytic logic as an organon?
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Did Hegel impact future philosophers by showing them how to view concepts as thesis/antithesis pairs?
I'm trying to understand Hegel's impact on future thinkers. It can be difficult to read philosophical ideas and ascertain how they had "real world" impact, which includes impact on future ...
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"First Outline" - does Schelling contradict himself in the Sun-Earth relation?
In "First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature", Second Division, Schelling tries to prove that the phenomenon that the Sun creates via the chemical action on Earth is light. During that ...
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Vaccines, Lebensreform, Gadamer
DW recently:
The first vaccine opposition groups were founded in 1869 in Leipzig and Stuttgart — five years before the imperial vaccination law. The Imperial Association Opposing Compulsory ...
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