Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, notice: 1,0, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover (Philosophisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Seminar "Rechts- und Staatsphilosophie", 17 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, summary: Thomas Hobbes und John Locke gehören zu den bedeutendsten Rechts- und
Staatstheoretikern und gelten häufig als Gründungsväter der modernen
Politikwissenschaft. Im Rahmen der folgenden Arbeit sollen ihre jeweiligen
staatsphilosophischen Hauptwerke, der „Leviathan“ und die „Two Treatises
of govt“ (insbesondere der 2. Aufsatz), behandelt werden. Dabei soll
es vorrangig darum gehen, die grundsätzlichen Ideen und Begriffe zu
identifizieren und deren Entwicklung darzustellen. Insbesondere die Rolle
und der Charakter von Recht und Staat sollen herausgearbeitet und
verglichen werden.

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This ebook offers a scientific reconstruction of Leibniz’s dynamics undertaking (c. 1676-1700) that contributes to a extra finished knowing of the techniques of actual causality in Leibniz’s paintings and seventeenth century physics. It argues that Leibniz’s idea of forces privileges the causal courting among structural association and actual phenomena rather than body-to-body mechanical causation. The mature perception of Leibnizian strength isn't the strength of 1 physique to reason movement in one other, yet one of those structural causation with regards to the configuration of imperative platforms of our bodies in actual evolution. via treating the immanent philosophy of Leibniz’s dynamics, this ebook makes specific the systematic goals and inherent limits of Leibniz's actual undertaking, as well as offering another imaginative and prescient of the clinical realizing of the actual global within the overdue seventeenth and early 18th century.

Das Fernsehen ist das mit großem Abstand wirksamste und wichtigste Medium der letzten sechzig Jahre. Unser Wissen über dieses Medium des schaltbaren Bilds ist demgegenüber allerdings punktuell und vorläufig geblieben: Das Nachdenken über das Fernsehen erfordert offenbar einen neuen Theorietyp, der nur wenig konturiert ist. Wir wissen oftmals gar nicht, was once wir über das Fernsehen schon wissen, used to be wiederum der Theorie zum Nachteil gereicht und ihre Anerkennung verhindert. Die vorliegende Einführung möchte dies ändern. Lorenz Engell schlüsselt den diffusen und fragmentarischen Zustand der Fernsehtheorie auf und entwirft aus begründeter Perspektive und unter Einbeziehung zentraler Ansätze (u.a. Günther Anders, Stanley Cavell, Marshall McLuhan) einen grundlegenden Überblick und Zusammenhang einer Theorie des schaltbaren Bildes.

This enticing e-book spans 3 centuries to supply the 1st complete account of the lengthy and various historical past of genius in France. Exploring quite a lot of examples from literature, philosophy, and historical past, in addition to drugs, psychology, and journalism, Ann Jefferson examines the ways that the belief of genius has been perpetually mirrored on and redefined via its makes use of in those various contexts. She strains its various fortunes in the course of the insanity and imposture with which genius is frequently linked, and during the observations of these who be sure its presence in others.

Jefferson considers the trendy beginnings of genius in eighteenth-century aesthetics and the works of philosophes resembling Diderot. She then investigates the nineteenth-century suggestion of nationwide and collective genius, the self-appointed function of Romantic poets as misunderstood geniuses, the recurrent obsession with failed genius within the realist novels of writers like Balzac and Zola, the contested type of lady genius, and the scientific literature that considered genius as a kind of pathology. She exhibits how twentieth-century perspectives of genius narrowed via its organization with IQ and baby prodigies, and she or he discusses the several methods significant theorists—including Sartre, Barthes, Derrida, and Kristeva—have repudiated and in this case revived the concept.

Rich in narrative aspect, Genius in France brings a clean method of French highbrow and cultural heritage, and to the burgeoning box of genius studies.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie des 19. Jahrhunderts, be aware: 2,0, Universität Duisburg-Essen (Philosophie), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar "Nietzsche", Sprache: Deutsch, summary: Die vorliegende Arbeit wurde im Anschluss an ein Seminar zum Thema „Nietzsche“ an der Universität Duisburg-Essen im Wintersemester 2009/10 verfasst. Gelegentlich wurde dort in den Diskussionen das Wort „Sklavenmoral“ verwendet, welches einen zentralen Schlüssel zum Verständnis der Sicht Nietzsches auf die ethical darzustellen scheint. Dieser Begriff conflict prägend für Nietzsches späte Werke, insb. „Jenseits von intestine und Böse“ und „Zur Genealogie der Moral“, welche allerdings – aufgrund der zeitlichen Beschränkungen des Semesters – leider nicht im Lektüreplan des Seminars Platz finden konnten.
Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit soll die Entstehung und Bedeutung des Begriffs „Sklavenmoral“ untersucht werden. Wie ist der Begriff in das philosophische Gesamtwerk Nietzsches einzuordnen? Befinden sich in den im Seminar behandelten Werken Nietzsches bereits Vorstufen einer „Sklavenmoral“ oder taucht der Begriff hier schon unter anderem Namen auf? Wie plausibel und schlüssig erscheinen Nietzsches Aussagen über die „Sklavenmoral“? used to be könnte Anlass zu Kritik geben? Wie steht es mit der Geltungsfrage?

even though Kierkegaard's reception was once in the beginning kind of constrained to Scandinavia, it has for a very long time now been a hugely overseas affair. As his writings have been translated into diversified languages his recognition unfold, and he turned learn a growing number of by way of humans more and more far away from his local Denmark. whereas in Scandinavia, the assault at the Church within the final years of his existence turned anything of a reason célèbre, later, many various points of his paintings turned the thing of significant scholarly research way past the unique northern borders. As his attractiveness grew, he used to be co-opted by means of a couple of various philosophical and non secular events in several contexts in the course of the international. the 3 tomes of this quantity try and list the background of this reception based on nationwide and linguistic different types. Tome I covers the reception of Kierkegaard in Northern and Western Europe. The articles on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland should be acknowledged to track Kierkegaard's impact in its roughly local Nordic Protestant context. because the authors in those international locations (with the exception of Finland) weren't depending on translations or different intermediaries, this represents the earliest culture of Kierkegaard reception. The early German translations of his works opened the door for the subsequent section of the reception which multiplied past the borders of the Nordic international locations. The articles within the part on Western Europe hint his impact in nice Britain, the Netherlands and Flanders, Germany and Austria, and France. All of those international locations and linguistic teams have their very own wide culture of Kierkegaard reception.

Karl Philipp Moritz is healthier referred to as the writer of the unconventional Anton Reiser, and as a student of classical aesthetics. despite the fact that, there's one other sector of his workthat was once very important to him: his engagement with language. opposed to the backdrop of ecu highbrow background, this e-book spotlights Moritz as an unique grammarian and thinker of language. It additionally illustrates the ways in which his reflections on language helped increase the tools of considering that later turned the root for his aesthetics.

during this quantity Paul Formosa units out a unique method of Kantian ethics as an ethics of dignity by way of concentrating on the formulation of Humanity as a normative precept certain from the formulation of common legislation. via situating the Kantian perception of dignity in the wider literature on dignity, he develops a big contrast among prestige dignity, which all rational brokers have, and success dignity, which all rational brokers may still aspire to. He then explores constructivist and realist perspectives at the beginning of the glory of rational brokers, ahead of constructing a compelling account of who does and doesn't have prestige dignity and of what sort of fulfillment dignity or advantage we, as weak rational brokers, can and may attempt for. His learn may be hugely useful for these attracted to Kant's moral, ethical and political philosophies.

The first English translation of Novalis’s unfinished notes for a common technology, Das Allgemeine Brouillon.

Novalis is better recognized in heritage because the poet of early German Romanticism. in spite of the fact that, this translation of Das Allgemeine Brouillon, or “Universal Notebook,” eventually introduces him to the English-speaking international as a very proficient thinker in his personal correct and shatters the parable of him as a trifling having a pipe dream and irrational poet. Composed of greater than 1,100 pc entries, this is often simply Novalis’s greatest theoretical paintings and definitely the most outstanding and audacious undertakings of the “Golden Age” of German philosophy. In it, Novalis displays on a variety of elements of human tradition, together with philosophy, poetry, the traditional sciences, the high quality arts, arithmetic, mineralogy, background, and faith, and brings all of them jointly into what he calls a “Romantic Encyclopaedia” or “Scientific Bible.”

Novalis’s Romantic Encyclopaedia totally embodies the author’s personal own model of philosophy, “Magical Idealism.” With meditations on mankind and nature, the potential destiny improvement of our colleges of cause, mind's eye, and the senses, and the unification of the various sciences, those notes include a veritable treasure trove of richly poetic and philosophic thoughts.

“…a welcome contribution to the transforming into literature in English at the philosophy of the early German romantics … This publication merits to be learn now not easily for its many poetic moments … yet for the general imaginative and prescient that offers the poetry its theoretical punch.” — Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

“With its lucid creation and notes, this crucial quantity allows the English-speaking reader to method the Notes for a Romantic Encyclopaedia (1798–9) for the 1st time as a coherent textual content, a part of a much broader seek in Germany for a brand new clinical technique, a plan purely later discovered in smooth physics.” — the days Literary Supplement

“…expertly translated, edited, and brought by means of David W. wooden ... There seems no subject, from the mysteries of the outside to the homes of minerals, which Novalis’s encyclopedic ambition didn't confront.” — the hot York Sun

“Wood’s translation will transform our feel of the diversity and form of ‘philosophy’ in German Idealism and Romanticism, and should make an incredible contribution to our realizing of the stakes and divisions within the encyclopaedic venture from the Enlightenment to the present.” — Tilottama Rajan, writer of Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology: Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard

“Wood’s first-class translation of a tough textual content is of the best quality and may be of significant provider to the field.” — Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert, translator of Manfred Frank’s The Philosophical Foundations of Early German Romanticism

Novalis (1772–1801) used to be the most important poet-philosopher of early German Romanticism. Universally acclaimed as a poetic genius for such works as Hymns to the evening and the incomplete novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen, he in particular favourite the fragment shape for his philosophical meditations. The latter achieve their climax during this quantity, his striking plan for a common science.

David W. wooden is a PhD candidate in German Idealism on the Sorbonne in Paris. he's the translator of Goethe and Love via Karl Julius Schröer.

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts / Gegenwart, observe: 2,3, FernUniversität Hagen (Fakultät KSW: Institut für Philosophie), seventy three Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, summary: Diese Untersuchung ist eine philosophische examine der Thesen von G. Roth und W. Singer zum Thema Willensfreiheit. Speziell wird dabei auf jene Schlussfolgerungen der Neurobiologen eingegangen, die Forderungen in Bezug auf eine Änderung des Strafrechts nach sich ziehen.Die Arbeit ist wie folgt gegliedert: Zweck und Anlage der Arbeit werden vorgestellt und ein Überblick über die wichtigsten naturwissenschaftlichen Experimente in diesem Kontext (Kapitel 2). Sodann werden die daraus gezogenen Erkenntnisse sowie die eigenen Forschungsleistungen von Gerhard Roth, Wolf Singer und die sich daran anschließende Diskussion vorgestellt (Kapitel three) und auf das Untersuchungsthema hin beurteilt.Mit Hilfe der hier gewonnenen Erkenntnisse wird in dem zweiten Teil (Kapitel four und five) der Arbeit diskutiert, inwieweit sich aus den geschilderten Experimenten Forderungen in Bezug auf eine Veränderung des Strafrechts begründen lassen oder ob die philosophischen Einwände gegen die Ergebnisse der neurowissenschaftlichen Forschung Bestand haben können. Ein Ausblick rundet die Untersuchung ab.