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| Varying Form of Title: | 25 years of philosophy
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| ISBN: | 9780674064980
0674064984
9780674068582
0674068580
9780674055162
0674055160
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-402) and index.
Translated from the German.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Kant declared that philosophy began in 1781 with his Critique of Pure Reason. In 1806 Hegel announced that philosophy had now been completed. Eckart Förster examines the reasons behind these claims and assesses the steps that led in such a short time from Kant's "(Bbeginning" to Hegel's "(Bend." He concludes that, in an unexpected yet significant sense, both Kant and Hegel were indeed right. The Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy follows the unfolding of a key idea during this exceptionally productive period: the Kantian idea that philosophy can be scientific and, consequently, can be completed. Förster's study combines historical research with philosophical insight and leads him to propose a new thesis. The development of Kant's transcendental philosophy in his three Critiques, Förster claims, resulted in a fundamental distinction between "(Bintellectual intuition" and "(Bintuitive understanding." Overlooked until now, this distinction yields two takes on how to pursue philosophy as science after Kant. One line of thought culminates in Fichte's theory of freedom (Wissenschaftslehre), while the other--and here Förster brings Goethe's significance to the fore--results in Goethe's transformation of the Kantian idea of an intuitive understanding in light of Spinoza's third kind of knowledge. Both strands are brought together in Hegel and propel his split from Schelling. Förster's work makes an original contribution to our understanding of the classical era of German philosophy--an expanding interest within the Anglophone philosophical community.
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| Other form: | Print version: Förster, Eckart. 25 Jahre der Philosophie. English. Twenty-five years of philosophy. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2012 9780674055162
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| Standard no.: | 10.4159/harvard.9780674064980
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