Questions tagged [german-philosophy]
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Graduate Program in Philosophy
I have bachelor's and master's in pure Mathematics and currently I am a math phd student in the United States.
I was wondering can I get admitted to a European university (in Germany, Austria, ...
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How does Fichte account for the existence of inter-subjective reality?
I have read many entries on Fichte online. There is never any reference to the question of the origin of inter-subjective reality. How do we apparently see the same world?
There does not seem to be ...
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Why did Heidegger chose to delay the publications of his Beiträge zur Philosophie?
Heidegger's Beiträge (Contributions to philosophy) were published with other writings in 1989, 50 years after their completion, as per Heidegger wish. Do we have any indication from Heidegger, veiled ...
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"Thing becoming vs Thing become" - What is meant by this phrase? What is its origin/Context?
I've been reading a lot of German classics for the last couple of years, and I keep bumping into the (para)phrase "The thing become" and "The thing becoming". I remember one of the ...
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Kant's Prolegomena §6 text interpretation "might reveal itself through these its effects"
I'm having a hard time trying to interpret this part of the text:
Does not this capacity, since it is not, and cannot be, based on experience, presuppose some a priori basis for cognition, which lies ...
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Analytic vs Dialectic logic
What are analytic and dialectic logic in Kantian philosophy? What's the difference between them and why can't we use analytic logic as an organon?
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I need help understanding Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
I need help in understanding Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason § 18 and 19. What Kant does there suggests an alternative to the idea that a concept represents a different object. So the question is about ...
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Is it ethical to convince someone to get vaccinated?
I'm currently writing about the ethics of vaccinations, and I have two long-standing concerns about the matter. "Is refusing vaccination a morally justifiable position?" will be my question. ...
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Are Ideas Noumenal?
I've been studying Kant's philosophy recently and I haven't been able to get something straight.
Quick question here: How does Kant's distinction between phenomena/noumena apply to ideas and thoughts? ...
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Vaccines, Lebensreform, Gadamer
DW recently:
The first vaccine opposition groups were founded in 1869 in Leipzig and Stuttgart — five years before the imperial vaccination law. The Imperial Association Opposing Compulsory ...
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Did Hegel impact future philosophers by showing them how to view concepts as thesis/antithesis pairs?
I'm trying to understand Hegel's impact on future thinkers. It can be difficult to read philosophical ideas and ascertain how they had "real world" impact, which includes impact on future ...
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How do Advaitans respond to Hegel's Absolute Idealism?
I have read quite a bit of Hindu philosophy, particularly that of the Advaitan school, and I'm trying to improve my understanding of German Idealism.
My understanding of Hegel's Absolute is that it is ...
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On Kant's use of "überhaupt" [in general] and "allgemein" [general]
What's the difference between 'überhaupt' and 'allgemein'?
I'm still not fully in the grasp of what Kant exactly mean when he uses 'überhaupt' and 'allgemein'. In German, these are completely ...
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What is the motivation of all individuals to stay alive?
What keeps an individual alive?
If we make the following assumptions:
There is nothing after death, only black. No heaven, no hell, no rebirth.
So we don't take anything with us after death and ...
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Questions about Marx's second, third, and fourth thesis in ''Theses on Feuerbach''
The question whether objective truth can be attributed to human thinking is not a question of theory but is a practical question.
a. What does Marx mean here by ”objective truth,” what is he alluding ...
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