Event Details

Date:
Friday, 30 October 2015
Time:
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Room:
Room E302
UQ Location:
Forgan Smith Building (St Lucia)
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Event Contact

Name:
Mrs Sue Quarton
Phone:
3365 6320
Email:
s.quarton@uq.edu.au
Org. Unit:
Historical and Philosophical Inquiry

Event Description

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There are good grounds to suggest that after the Greco-Roman, the Medieval Scholastic, the Classical Rationalistic and the Empiricist philosophies, the fifth major school of Western Philosophy is German Idealism. In dealing schematically with the thought of Kant (1724-1804), Fichte (1762-1812), Hegel (1770-1831) and Schelling (1775-1854), this paper will suggest that the movement has three major realizations, or better, opens up three major perspectives. First, Kant breaks with dogmatic rationalism yet constructs a new apriorism, i.e. a metaphysical foundation of human finitude. Second, Hegel, mediated by Fichte, widens and deepens reason’s sway and conceptualizes the historical world. Third, Schelling rejects Hegel’s absolute philosophy and shows the irreducibility of existence and evil, yet tries to integrate them into a rational system. German Idealism, so to say, lays the groundwork, negatively, for Kierkegaard
and Nietzsche and, positively, for Phenomenology from Husserl to Heidegger and Lévinas.

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