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The Thing
About: The Thing is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 299 publications have been published within this topic receiving 2365 citations.
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TL;DR: Nietzsche's "overthrow of Platonism" as discussed by the authors was defined as the task of the philosophy of the future, which is the goal of his philosophy of ideas.
Abstract: What is meant by the "overthrow of Platonism"? Nietzsche thus defines the task of his philosophy, or more generally, the task of the philosophy of the future. The phrase seems to mean abolishing the world of essences and the world of appearances. Such a project would not, however, be Nietzsche's own. The double objection to essences and appearance goes back to Hegel, and further still, to Kant. It is unlikely that Nietzsche would have meant the same thing. Further, this way of formulating the overthrow has the drawback of being abstract; it leaves the motivation for Platonism obscure. To overthrow Platonism should, on the contrary, mean bringing this motivation to light, "tracking" it down as Plato hunts down the Sophist. In very general terms, the motive for the theory of Ideas is to be sought in the direction of a will to select, to sort out. It is a matter of drawing differences, of distinguishing between the "thing" itself and its images, the original and the copy, the model and the simulacrum. But are all these expressions equal? The Platonic project emerges only if we refer back to the method of division, for this method is not one dialectical procedure among others. It masters all the power of the dialectic so as to fuse it with another power and thus to represent the whole system. One could initially say that it consists of dividing a genus into opposing species in order to place the thing under investigation within the correct species: thus the process of continuous specification in the search for a definition of the angler's art. But this is only the superficial aspect of the division, its ironic aspect. If one takes this aspect seriously, Aristotle's objection is clearly applicable; division is a bad and illegitimate syllogism, because it lacks a middle term that could, for example, lead us to conclude that angling belongs to the arts of acquisition and of acquisition by capture, and so forth. The real goal of division must be sought elsewhere. In the Statesman one finds an initial definition: the statesman is the shepherd of men. But all sorts of
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Journal Article•
TL;DR: Husserl, Edmund Thing and Space: Lectures of 1907 Collected Works, vol 7 Translated by Richard Rojcewicz Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997 xxix + 349 pp Cloth, $14300--With the publication of these lectures, given in the summer semester of 1907 at the University of Gottingen, all of the course on the "Main Parts of the Phenomenology and Critique of Reason" is now available as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: HUSSERL, Edmund Thing and Space: Lectures of 1907 Collected Works, vol 7 Translated by Richard Rojcewicz Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997 xxix + 349 pp Cloth, $14300--With the publication of these lectures, given in the summer semester of 1907 at the University of Gottingen, all of Husserl's course on the "Main Parts of the Phenomenology and Critique of Reason" is now available They were preceded by the publication in 1964 of a translation of the first five lectures of the course (on the nature of philosophy, seeing, phenomenology, thinking, and the thing, respectively) under the title The Idea of Phenomenology, which was first published in German in 1950 As Husserl wrote in a private notebook, the themes of the course were to be the "problems of a phenomenology of perception, of phantasy, of time, of the thing" (p xx) As worked out in the course, the lectures describe the conditions of possibility of the presentation of a thing in visual (and tactile) perception, the role of kinaesthetic experience in the unification of the series of images of the thing presented, and the temporal background of the presentation Husserl's marginalia to the lectures are included in an appendix, as are twelve related texts (1907-26) that further develop certain topics raised by the lectures (for example, "Visual Space and Objective Space," "On the Constitution of Riemannian Things," "Active and Passive Locomotion," and "Empty Space") In addition, there are two essays from the years 1916-17 which arose from a planned elaboration of the "Thing-lectures" by Edith Stein, Husserl's graduate assistant at Freiburg University The second of these essays, on the "Systematic Constitution of Space," is Husserl's revision of part of Stein's work The division of the text into six sections and the headings of the various parts are the work of the German editor, Ulrich Claeges The so-called "Thing-lecture s," which were first published in 1973, are early, tentative analyses of space and the "individually identical" thing (p 98) According to Claeges, "Husserl was at this time going through a `severe crisis,' a doubt concerning himself which tormented him so seriously that he put in question his own existence as a philosopher" (p xii) The tone of the lectures reflects this uncertainty Husserl often corrects himself His tentative formulations never claim to be exhaustive, and they seldom satisfy their author Claeges also notes that the method of "phenomenological reduction" had occurred to Husserl only in 1905 (p xviii) Thus, in these lectures, we are witness to among the first examples of Husserl's employment of the method of drawing back or pulling back from (in this case) perception and turning to the act of perceiving that is producing the perception …
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Book•
1 Jan 1982
TL;DR: In this paper, the life and career of the California artist, who currently works with pure light and the subtle modulation of empty space, is described and documented. But the work is limited in scope.
Abstract: Traces the life and career of the California artist, who currently works with pure light and the subtle modulation of empty space.
74 citations
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30 Jun 1964
TL;DR: Ateneo de Manila University as mentioned in this paper has published a book entitled "Philippine Studies: Ateniese of Manila University" which is published by the Ateniello de Manila university.
Abstract: Philippine Studies is published by the Ateneo de Manila University.
63 citations
1 Jan 1970
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| 2020 | 14 |