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It is no exaggeration to say that of the early 20th century German
philosophers who claimed to establish a new ontology, former
neo-Kantian turned realist Nicolai Hartmann is the only one to have
actually followed through. "Ontology: Laying the Foundations" deals
with "what is insofar as it is," and its four parts tackle
traditional ontological assumptions and prejudices and traditional
categories such as substance, thing, individual, whole, object, and
phenomenon; a novel redefinition of existence and essence in terms
of the ontological factors Dasein and Sosein and their
interrelations; an analysis of modes of "givenness" and the
ontological embeddedness of cognition in affective transcendent
acts; and a discussion of the status of ideal being, including
mathematical being, phenomenological essences, logical laws,
values, and the interconnections between the ideal and real
spheres. Hartmann's work offers rich resources for those interested
in overcoming the human-centeredness of much 20th century
philosophy. Hartmann's work offers rich resources for those
interested in overcoming the human-centeredness of much 20th
century philosophy.
The imposing scope and penetrating insights of German philosopher
Nicolai Hartmann's work have received renewed interest in recent
years. The Neo-Kantian turned ontological realist established a
philosophical approach unique among his peers, and it provides a
wealth of resources for considering contemporary philosophical
problems. The chapters included in this volume examine his ethics,
ontology, aesthetics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of nature.
They explore his ontology of values, autonomy and human
enhancement, and law; his theory of levels of reality, space-time
and geometry, the categories of temporality, causality, and "life,"
the question of realism, and social ontology. Others take
inspiration from his aesthetic theory, ideas about education, and
his embrace of the Socratic pathos of wonder. They bring his
philosophy into conversation with that of his contemporaries,
including Roman Ingarden and Konrad Lorenz's appropriation of
Hartmann, as well as with the history of philosophy, including
Plato's theory of recollection, pre-Socratic philosophy, and that
of his Russian teacher Nikolai Lossky. Those familiar with
Hartmann's wide-ranging systematic philosophy will benefit from
these new engagements with his work, and those new to it will find
them relevant to a number of current philosophical debates.
It is no exaggeration to say that of the early 20th century German
philosophers who claimed to establish a new ontology, former
neo-Kantian turned realist Nicolai Hartmann is the only one to have
actually followed through. "Ontology: Laying the Foundations" deals
with "what is insofar as it is," and its four parts tackle
traditional ontological assumptions and prejudices and traditional
categories such as substance, thing, individual, whole, object, and
phenomenon; a novel redefinition of existence and essence in terms
of the ontological factors Dasein and Sosein and their
interrelations; an analysis of modes of "givenness" and the
ontological embeddedness of cognition in affective transcendent
acts; and a discussion of the status of ideal being, including
mathematical being, phenomenological essences, logical laws,
values, and the interconnections between the ideal and real
spheres. Hartmann's work offers rich resources for those interested
in overcoming the human-centeredness of much 20th century
philosophy. Hartmann's work offers rich resources for those
interested in overcoming the human-centeredness of much 20th
century philosophy.
Appearing here in English for the first time, this isF.W.J.
Schelling's vital document of the attempts of German idealism and
Romanticism to recover a deeper relationship between humanity and
nature and to overcome the separation between mind and matter
induced by the modern reductionist program. Written in 1799 and
building upon his earlier work, "First Outline of a System of the
Philosophy of Nature provides the most inclusive exposition of
Schelling's philosophy of the natural world. He presents a
startlingly contemporary model of an expanding and contracting
universe; a unified theory of electricity, gravity magnetism, and
chemical forces; and, perhaps most importantly, a conception of
nature as a living and organic whole.
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