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In defense of reason after Hegel : why we are so wise /

In Defense of Reason After Hegel undermines the assault on truth pervading public life and the academy, showing how we can think objectively about reason, nature, right, and beauty.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Winfield, Richard Dien (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Anthem Press, 2022.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Why We Are So Wise: Hegelian Reflections on whether Reason Can Be Enhanced
  • Challenge to the Improvers of Reason
  • The Natural Enabling Conditions of Reason
  • The Psychological Prerequisites of Thinking
  • Universality, Self-Determination, and Rational Autonomy
  • The Effect of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Evolution upon the Life of the Mind
  • Can Technology and Artificial Intelligence Augment Our Wisdom?
  • Chapter 2 Self-Determination in Logic and Reality
  • Overcoming the Logical Challenge to Self-Determination
  • Self-Determination and Conceptual Determination
  • Overcoming the Psychological Challenge to Self-Determination
  • Overcoming the Practical Challenge to Self-Determination
  • Chapter 3 Hegel's Overcoming of the Overcoming of Metaphysics
  • The Repudiation of Foundational Ontology and Its Hegelian Critique
  • The Repudiation of Synthetic a priori Knowledge and Its Hegelian Critique
  • Hegel and the Future of Metaphysics
  • Chapter 4 On Contradiction: Hegel versus Aristotle, Sextus Empiricus, and Kant
  • Aristotle on Contradiction
  • Sextus Empiricus and the Principle of Contradiction
  • Hegel's Account of Determinacy as the Thoroughgoing Refutation of the Principle of Contradiction
  • Why Hegel Addresses Contradiction and Its Principle in the Logic of Essence
  • The Logic of the Concept and Emancipation from the Principle of Contradiction
  • Chapter 5 Overcoming Actuality: How Hegel Frees Us from the Prison of Modality
  • The Prison of Actuality
  • Putting Actuality in Its Proper Place
  • Why Actuality Falls in the Logic of Determined Determinacy
  • From Substance to Modality
  • From Modality to Causality
  • From Causality to Freedom
  • Self-Determination and the Concept
  • Chapter 6 Time and Reason
  • The Inscrutable Ubiquity of Time
  • The Attempt to Root Time in Motion
  • The Attempt to Root Time in Mind
  • From Space to Time
  • The Concrete Material Determination of Space-Time
  • The Psychological and Historical Determinations of Time
  • Chapter 7 Hegel and the Problem of Consciousness
  • Philosophy and the Opposition of Consciousness
  • From the Modern Philosophy of Mind to Hegel's Systematic Account of Consciousness
  • Hegel's Account of Prediscursive Self-Consciousness
  • From Consciousness to Intelligence
  • Chapter 8 Hegel and the Origin of Language
  • The Puzzle of the Origin of Language
  • The Three Dogmas Barring Comprehension of the Origination of Language
  • The Origin of the Basic Element of Language
  • The Move from Names to Discourse
  • Chapter 9 The Logic of Right
  • Philosophy, Logic, and Ethics
  • Logic per se versus the Logic of Realphilosophie
  • Self-Determination in Logic versus Self-Determination in Ethics
  • Is the Threefold Division of Abstract Right, Morality, and Ethical Community Valid?