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Kant on judgement II Let look over our shoulder and see what lies behind us. What it is all about is the question 'How do I achieve certainty of knowledge?' For Descartes an object had extension. This was a clear and certain idea in our mind. It was a property of the object recognize......Read More

Posted on: 2008-03-01 11:37:02 | Rating:

| Views: 65 | Comments: 3 | Tags: still Kant

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Kant on ethics We cant discuss Kant's theory on ethics without placing it in a wider context. His theory is not just a theory, but also a reaction on other theories on ethics which were well accepted in his time. What grounds do we have to base ethics on? After all the philosophers......Read More

Posted on: 2008-03-04 15:53:26 | Rating:

| Views: 79 | Comments: 1 | Tags: ethics as duty

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Friedrich Schiller Friedrich Schiller...ah..nice... something different now. Not a Kant with his deep and complex theories, but now on aesthetics. Can't be that hard as Kant. However, I was mistaken. I wont say it is even worse, but like all fundamental questions, it were......Read More

Posted on: 2008-03-04 18:49:01 | Rating:

| Views: 102 | Comments: 5 | Tags: what is beauty....?

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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Let me quote Wikipedia, the English version: "Schelling's thought has often been neglected, especially in the English-speaking world. This stems not only from the ascendancy of Hegel, whose mature works portray Schelling as a mere......Read More

Posted on: 2008-03-07 03:57:13 | Rating:

| Views: 81 | Comments: 5 | Tags: Being subject and object at the same...

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Georg Wilhem Friedriech Hegel Let me begin with a quote from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosopy: "In Britain (...) Hegel came to be one of the main targets of attack by the founders of the emerging “analytic” movement, Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore. For......Read More

Posted on: 2008-03-10 05:49:52 | Rating:

| Views: 54 | Comments: 2 | Tags: All about Hegel....

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Arthur Schopenhauer "There is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the......Read More

Posted on: 2008-03-12 05:07:13 | Rating:

| Views: 50 | Comments: 1 | Tags: Should we be pessimistic.....?

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An Overview Schopenhauer died in 1860. With Adam Smith we go back to 1750. He is the first one with a new vision on man.Besides he is the 50th philosopher that I lecture on now. We have come a long way and this may be a good moment to review what is behind us. I follow the development......Read More

Posted on: 2008-03-14 10:45:28 | Rating:

| Views: 57 | Comments: 2 | Tags: An overview...

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Adam Smith Adam Smith was a friend of David Hume. It is about 1750, a professor of logic at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He was not just a philosopher but even more one of the most influential political economists, but that after he became well known because of his moral......Read More

Posted on: 2008-03-17 05:01:06 | Rating:

| Views: 40 | Comments: 0 | Tags: an exciting debate.....

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Mary Wollstonecraft To begin with the end, she died young, 38. If that had not happened maybe the emancipation wouldnt have lost its momentum, someone said. This is an interesting remark, as it demonstrates a way of looking at history. Like we do in these lectures, we are focused on......Read More

Posted on: 2008-03-19 07:15:55 | Rating:

| Views: 72 | Comments: 0 | Tags: A female philosopher...

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Thomas Paine Thomas Paine was an English pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, classical liberal and intellectual. Born in Great Britain in 1737. He must have known Mary Wollstonecraft. He was more a jounalist than a real philosopher and that brings me to the question......Read More