Principles of Philosophy

Ivo De Gennaro

doi:10.5771/9783495823699

Summary

This book offers a phenomenologically informed reading of some fundamental positions of the philosophical tradition. Its objective is not that of giving an exhaustive account of the thinking of any single philosopher, much less of the trajectory of philosophy as a whole. rather, the aim is to retrace a few key moments in the course of philosophical enquiry, from its outset to its accomplishment in Nietzsche’s metaphysics, with a focus on the main motive of that enquiry: the always new attempt to establish a sufficient knowledge of the ultimate principle on which to build a human »ethos«.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-3-495-49092-1
ISBN-Online: 978-3-495-82369-9
Publisher: Karl Alber, Baden-Baden
Language: English
Pages: 374
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 13
1. A Propaedeutic Distinction: Operative Concepts versus Ontological Concepts (On Σχολή) No access Pages 14 - 25
Appendix 1: From the Preface to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (1806) No access Pages 26 - 27
2. Introduction No access Pages 28 - 51
Appendix 2: Kant on the Learning and Teaching of Philosophy No access Pages 52 - 59
1. 3.1 Contingency No access
2. 3.2 Why Engage with the Principles of Philosophy? No access
Appendix 3: Schelling on the Condition for Attaining the Point of Inception of Philosophy No access Pages 83 - 84
1. 4.1 Logos No access
2. 4.2 Harmonia No access
3. 4.3 Kosmos No access
4. 4.4 Physis No access
1. 1. In the visible domain: No access
2. 2. In the mindable domain: No access
1. 5.1 Preliminary Consideration: the Word »Being« No access
2. 1. (1) The notion of physis No access
  2. (2) The notion of al&emacr;theia No access
  3. (3) The notions of einai and eon No access
  4. (4) The notion of noein No access
3. 5.3 Fragment VI: Being’s Need No access
4. 5.4 The Paths of Inquiry No access
5. 5.5 Circuits and Cybernetics No access
6. 5.6 Fragment VIII: the Traits of Being No access
7. 5.7 The Ontological Temptation No access
8. 5.8 The Philosophical Question No access
1. 6.1 The Structure and Scope of the Guiding Question of Philosophy No access
2. 6.2 Plato’s Answer to the Guiding Question of Philosophy No access
3. 6.3 The Traits of the Idea and its Reference to Physis No access
4. 6.4 The Idea of the Good No access
5. 6.5 Paideia No access
6. 6.6 The Myth of the Cave No access
7. 6.7 Plato and the Onto-theo-logical Constitution of Metaphysics No access
Appendix 5: Plato on the Uselessness of Philosophy No access Pages 213 - 217
Appendix 6: Heidegger on the Eros of Being No access Pages 218 - 219
7. Aristotle No access Pages 220 - 231
8. Transition to Modernity[srtn](On Method) No access Pages 232 - 239
Appendix 7: From Galilei’s Discorsi No access Pages 240 - 240
1. 9.1 The Meditations as First Philosophy No access
2. 1. (a) What is old No access
  2. (b) What is new No access
3. 9.3 Descartes’s First Principle No access
4. 1. (i) Cogitating as perceiving (percipere) No access
  2. (ii) Cogitating as doubting (dubitare) No access
  3. (iii) Cogitating as »I cogitate myself cogitating« (cogito me cogitare) or as self-assuring assurance No access
5. 9.5 The Cogitating I as Subiectum No access
6. 9.6 Recapitulation of Descartes’s Metaphysical Position No access
Appendix 8: From Descartes’s Meditations No access Pages 263 - 265
1. 10.1 Leibniz’s Answer to the Guiding Question of Philosophy No access
2. 10.2 The Principle of Sufficient Reason No access
3. 10.3 The Original (Harmonic) Economy of the World No access
1. 11.1 The Transcendental Experience No access
2. 11.2 The Position of Being and the Original Unity of Apperception No access
Appendix 9: Schelling on the Desirableness of Philosophy No access Pages 312 - 314
1. 12.1 Nietzsche’s Answer to the Guiding Question of Philosophy: Life and the Will to Power No access
2. 12.2 Values as Conditions of the Will to Power No access
3. 12.3 The Will to Power as the Cause of Universal Becoming and the Absence of a »True World« No access
4. 12.4 Becoming as an Approximation of Being No access
5. 12.5 Nihilism and the Necessary Inversion of the Polarity of Values No access
6. 12.6 The Overall Economic Management of the Earth and the Overman No access
1. 13.1 The End of Philosophy No access
2. 13.2 The Task Held in Store No access
3. 13.3 Being and Time No access
Greek Alphabet No access Pages 373 - 374