New research on the philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann / edited by Keith Peterson and Roberto Poli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peterson, Keith R., editor.

Poli, Roberto, 1955- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hartmann, Nicolai, 1882-1950.

Hartmann, Nicolai.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Foreword

1. Pure and Qualified Time

2. Hartmann on Spacetime and Geometry

3. Nicolai Hartmann’s Concept of Causality

4. “The Role of the Missing Reason”: The Search for a Stratum-Specific Form of Determination in Nicolai Hartmann’s Theory of Life

5. From Linearity to Co-Evolution: On the Architecture of Nicolai Hartmann’s Levels of Reality

6. Flat, Hierarchical, or Stratified? Determination and Dependence in Social-Natural Ontology

7. The Discovery of A Priori Knowledge: Hartmann’s Interpretation of Plato’s Theory of Recollection

8. The Being of Becoming in Pre-socratic Philosophy

9. Beings in the World: Elements for a Comparison between Nicolai Hartmann and Roman Ingarden

10. The Place of Nicolai Hartmann’s Ontology in Konrad Lorenz’s Epistemology

11. Investigating Affectivity in light of Hartmann’s Layered Structure of Reality

12. From Value Being to Human Being: The Ways of Nicolai Hartmann’s Anthropology

13. Nicolai Hartmann and Natural Law

14. Personality, Autonomy, Fairness: On Nicolai Hartmann’s Material Ethics of Value in the Age of Human Enhancement

15. Modal Aesthetics

16. Nicolai Hartmann’s Thoughts on Education

17. “The Socratic Pathos of Wonder”: On Hartmann’s Conception of Philosophy

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110434378

3110434377

9783110433142

3110433141

OCLC:

935640145