| Description |
1 online resource (x, 222 pages) |
| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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? |
| 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 |
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Hegel, Georg Ludwig Friedrich, 1807-1831
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| SUBJECT |
Hegel, Georg Ludwig Friedrich, 1807-1831 fast |
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Objectivity.
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Truth.
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Reason.
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truth.
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reason.
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Objectivity
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781839982446 |
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1839982446 |
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9781839982439 |
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1839982438 |
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