Modernity and Plato : Two Paradigms of Rationality
Arbogast. Schmitt
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Rochester, N.Y. : Camden house , 2012
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (636 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Frontcover; Contents; Foreword to the English Edition; Foreword to the First Edition; Translator's Acknowledgments; Translator's Note; Translator's Introduction; Introduction; 1. Difficulties in the Definition and Self-Conception of "Modernity" and the Emergence of "Historical Thinking"; 2. The Turn toward This World and the Idealization of Nature to "Beautiful" Nature in Modern Art; 3. The Turn to Experience and the Idealization of the Individual Object to a "Well-Determined" Object in the Scientific Discourses of "Modernity". - 2.3 What Is Modern about Early Modernity: Liberation from Intuition or the Dominance of the Concept?2.4 Aporias in the Relation of Intuition to Thought: From the Modern and Ancient Perspectives; 2.5 Problems of Concept-Formation and Attempted Resolutions; 2.6 The Primacy of Sensory Cognition over Thought; 2.7 Concluding Evaluation and Transition; Part II: ""Concrete Thought"" as the Precondition of a Culture of Ethics, Politics, and Economics in Plato and Aristotle; Chapter 3: The Interpretation of ""Antiquity"" from the Perspective of Modern Rationality. - 4. The Turn to Experience and the Rise of the "Modern" Concept of Thought: Consciousness5. Philosophies of Consciousness and of Discrimination: The Basic Difference in Potential Strategies of Epistemological Justification in Ancient and Modern Philosophy; 6. Determinacy and Distinguishability as the Basic Philosophical Principles in Plato and Aristotle; 7. The Renaissance: Not the Rebirth of "the" Antiquity but a Revival of Hellenistic Antiquity; 8. The Structure of This Book: Part I; 9. The Structure of This Book: Part II. - 5.2 The Unique Function of Thought: Its Independence of the Opposition between the Conscious and the Unconscious. - Chapter 4: The Epistemological Foundations of a Philosophy of Discrimination4.1 The Principle of Non-Contradiction as the Fundamental Criterion of Rationality in Aristotle; 4.2 Rational Thought and Historical Understanding in Plato; 4.3 "Being" as an Epistemological Criterion in Plato; 4.4 Discrimination as the Fundamental Act of Thought and the System of Science in the "Liberal Arts"; Chapter 5: Abstract Consciousness versus Concrete Thought: Overcoming the Opposition between Feeling and Reason in a Philosophy of Discrimination; 5.1 Widening the Concept of Thought. - Part I: Abstract Thinking versus Concrete Sensation: The Opposition between Culture and Nature in ModernityChapter 1: Do Freedom and Indeterminacy Make Man a Cultural Being? Or, Why Antiquity Seems Antiquated; 1.1 The Opposition between Self-Created Culture and Pre-Determined Nature in Man; 1.2 The Narrowing of the Concept of Rationality through the Opposition between "Sensibility" and "Reason"; Chapter 2: ""Healthy Common sense"" and the Nature/Culture Antithesis; 2.1 An Attempt at a Critique of Early Modernity's Antithesis between Nature and Culture; 2.2 The Original Sin of Rationality. - Modernity's break with the Middle Ages is distinguished by a turn to a world of individual, empirical experience, a repudiation of Plato's idea of a reality of rationality and intellect. Yet already in the Renaissance it was no longer thought necessary to confront the ""old,"" Platonic concept of rationality. Arbogast Schmitt's book sets itself this until-now-unfulfilled task, howing that the Enlightenment did not, as often assumed, discover rationality, but instead a different 'concept' of rationality. It is a major contribution to synthetic philosophy and philosophical historiography, in Eng
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| ISBN | 9781571134974
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