Search results for "Metaphysics"
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La fiducia di un certo restare
2020
Referring to Leonardo Samona's position and his reading of Heidegger's philosophy, the essay analyzes the relationship between philosophy and faith and their differences and analogies.
¿Tiene arraigo en el cerebro la libertad?
2017
El artículo se propone, en primer lugar, ofrecer un nuevo concepto de naturaleza humana, más allá de la metafísica tradicional y de la interpretación naturalista de las actuales neurociencias, superando así la unilateral apropiación cientificista del concepto de naturaleza humana y defendiendo una biohermenéutica, que cuenta con la pluralidad de perspectivas para comprender la realidad humana, como en el dualismo epistémico habermasiano. En segundo lugar, se indaga si en el cerebro tiene arraigo la libertad en el sentido de «libre albedrío» y de «autonomía», teniendo en cuenta la posición de acreditados neurólogos y el estudio de las disposiciones naturales en la concepción kantiana de la a…
Life is but a Mirror: On the Connection between Ethics, Metaphysics and Character in Schopenhauer
2008
Criticism of Metaphysics and Constitution of the Subject: Materialist Effects on the Philosophy of Helvétius and d'Holbach
2014
The series of books, marginalia, refutations, provoked by De l'esprit (1758) and De l'homme (1773) often plays a strategic role in the understanding of the Enlightenment. This paper focuses on what really happened when Rousseau did read and commented on Helvétius, which he made twice. Rousseau comments on the theory of judgment from the account of the experience of the sensitive and judging being. The question of matter and its properties will then no longer appear as the key to Rousseau's first reaction to Helvétius' work. Then we will see what closeness between the two philosophies need to be cleared. It will appear that Rousseau did not interpret (or rather misinterpret) Helvétius as the…
Simulating Machines: Modelling, Metaphysics and the Mechanosphere
2020
This article explores some of the ways in which the conceptual apparatus of A Thousand Plateaus, and especially its machinic metaphysics, can be connected to recent developments in computer modelling and social simulation, which provide new tools for thinking that are becoming increasingly popular among philosophers and social scientists. Conversely, the successful deployment of these tools provides warrant for the flat ontology articulated in A Thousand Plateaus and therefore contributes to the ‘reversal of Platonism’ for which Deleuze had called in his earlier works, such as Logic of Sense. The first major section offers a brief exposition of some key concepts in A Thousand Plateaus in or…
Kants Konzeption kosmologischer Freiheit – ein metaphysischer Rest?
2017
Die deutschen Idealisten waren der Auffassung, Kant habe mit seiner transzendentalen Umwälzung der Begründungsproblematik eine Revolution in der philosophischen Denkungsart in Gang gesetzt, die es weniger aufzuhalten als vielmehr dadurch zu vollbringen gelte, daß die Voraussetzungen oder ‚Fundamente‘ der Kantischen Philosophie selbst kritisch in den Blick genommen würden. Zu diesen Voraussetzungen gehört zweifelsohne Kants Architektonik der Vernunft im allgemeinen und die Stellung, die dem Freiheitsbegriff dabei zukommt, im besonderen. Es wird gezeigt, daß Kants Bestimmung kosmologischer oder transzendentaler Freiheit nicht so sehr einen sicheren Ausgangspunkt für Erkundungen im Rahmen der …
What Is an Individual?
2021
The first nine sections discuss at length the notion of individual, concluding it is not an ontological, but a linguistic one. The last three draw some very general conclusions that may well be called “metaphysical”.
The Apodicticity of Absence
1995
Husserl criticizes traditional metaphysics. Nevertheless, for Derrida, ‘metaphysics’ finest hour is represented by Husserl—The ‘return to the things themselves’ is precisely this ultimate effacement of metaphysics in the act of its predominance. The ‘principle of principles,’ that which guarantees the truth of the things themselves is an essential metaphysical one: the presence of presence to itself.”1 Derrida himself says: “The ultimate form of ideality, the ideality of ideality,... is the living present, the self-presence of transcendental life. Presence has always been and will always, forever, be the form in which, we can say apodictically, the infinite diversity of contents is produced…
Acerca de la noción de metafísica en Berkeley
2013
Este artículo trata de probar cómo el concepto de metafísica de Berkeley debería ser tomado con ciertas precisiones. Si algunos fragmentos se toman fuera de su contexto, tales como Alciphron IV, 2, surgiría una idea errónea de su concepto de metafísica y su relación con las ciencias.