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In defense of reason after Hegel : why we are so wise / Richard Dien Winfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winfield, Richard Dien, 1950- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hegel, Georg Ludwig Friedrich, 1807-1831.
- Hegel, Georg Ludwig Friedrich.
- Reason.
- Objectivity.
- Truth.
- Autonomy (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- London : Anthem Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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?
- Are Family, Civil Society, and the State the Exhaustive Differentiations of Ethical Community?
- Chapter 10 A Dream Deferred: From the US Constitution to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Rights and the Constitution
- The Narrow Focus of the US Constitution
- The Promise of the Preamble
- Liberty versus Self-Determination
- The Limitation of Rights in the Articles of the US Constitution
- Prepolitical Rights in Article I
- Prepolitical Rights in Article II
- Prepolitical Rights in Article III
- Prepolitical Rights in Articles IV-VII
- Prepolitical Rights in the Bill of Rights
- Prepolitical Rights in the Other Amendments
- Is the US Constitution Incomplete?
- FDR's Call for a New Social Bill of Rights
- The Additional Rights of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- The Abiding Challenge.
- Chapter 11 World Spirit on the Campaign Trail in Georgia: Can the Philosophy of Right Be a Guide to Social Reform?
- Contesting the Enslavement of Theory to Practice
- From the Practical Conditioning of Knowing to the General Impasse of Transcendental Philosophy
- The Unification of Theory and Practice in Systematic Logic
- From the System of Right to the History of Right
- The Philosophy of Right's Challenge to the US Democracy
- World Spirit on the Campaign Trail in Georgia
- Chapter 12 The Classical Nude and the Limits of Sculpture
- The Constitutive Limits of Figurative Sculpture
- The Affinity between Sculpture and Classicism
- Form and Content in the Classical Nude
- Sculpture and Modernity
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Winfield, Richard Dien In Defense of Reason After Hegel
- ISBN:
- 9781839982446
- 1839982438 (electronic bk.)
- OCLC:
- 1304242680
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