The Concept of Nature in Classical German Philosophy / edited by Luis Fellipe Garcia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garcia, Luis Fellipe, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, German.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter, [2025]

Summary:

Classical German Philosophy has traditionally been understood as the period in the history of ideas in which the investigation of the human mind takes precedence over the investigation of the natural world.This assessment has a twofold consequence.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: The Resurgence of Classical German Natural Philosophy

Part I Visions of Nature

2 Three Visions of Nature for German Idealism: Kant, Herder, Goethe

3 Nature as a "You": Novalis's Philosophical Extension of Fichte

4 Schelling on Comprehending Nature as an Absolute Activity: From Intellectual Intuition to Ecstasy of Reason

5 Hegel and the Rationality of Nature

6 Ludwig Feuerbach's Ecological Humanism

Part II Inorganic Nature

7 Kant's Concept of Force and its Application in Physics and Psychology

8 From Kant to Schelling: Metaphysics of Nature and the Rise of Modern Science

9 Goethe's Rational Empiricism

10 Hegel's Concept of Inorganic Nature as Umwelt

Part III Organic Nature

11 Nature versus Life: Dialectics and Physiology in Schelling

12 Anatomopathology of Reason: Bichat's Legacy in Hegel's Philosophy

13 The Emergence of Sentience: Hegel's Conception of Animals

14 Great Chains of Being in Schelling's Würzburg System

15 In What Sense is Nature a Scale of Degrees? Schelling and Hegel on "Degrees" in Nature

Index of Names

Index of Subjects.

Notes:

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ISBN:

3-11-100245-4

OCLC:

1463767002