What Is a Logical Concept of Life? Reply to Critics

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Karen Ng
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Philosophical Method ◽  
Science Of Logic ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
The Core ◽  
Logical Concept ◽  
The Status

I am very grateful to Karen Koch and Sebastian Rand for their generous and thoughtful engagement with some of the core arguments of my book. Whereas Koch raises a number of questions concerning the purposiveness theme and Hegel's relation to Kant, Rand's questions revolve around the interpretation of Hegel's Science of Logic, asking after the status of the a priori, singularity, and death in relation to the logical concept of life. Their critical questions provide an opportunity for me to both clarify and defend one of the central claims of my book, namely, that there is a distinctly logical concept of life at work in Hegel's philosophy that is key for understanding his philosophical method. In the book, I argue that this concept, operative in Hegel's writings from the Differenzschrift through the Phenomenology to his Science of Logic, is primarily inherited from Kant, specifically from problems surrounding the concept of inner purposiveness developed in the Critique of Judgement. I will begin by replying to Koch, followed by a response to Rand.

scholarly journals Hegel's A Priori and the Critique of Three Aprioristic Readings of the Science of Logic

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Federico Orsini
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
A Posteriori ◽  
Science Of Logic ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Status ◽  
Adequate Evaluation ◽  
Vicious Circularity ◽  
The Universe

Abstract The goal of my essay is to clarify the status of the a priori in Hegel's Science of Logic. My claim is that in order to make possible an appreciation of the originality of Hegel's position we need to map a context of discussion and to dissolve a set of preconceptions about Hegel's idea of philosophy. My argument will be articulated in two parts. In the first part, I will analyse four possible positions regarding the issue of the aprioricity of the Logic, I will defend a fifth position, and I will draw a distinction between apriorism and a priori. In the second part, I will examine three distinct charges of apriorism against Hegel's Logic: the charge of assuming God's point of view of the universe, the charge of vicious circularity between the beginning and the end of the Logic, the charge of self-sufficiency of the Logic. As a result, I hope to show that these charges are unfounded, and to clear the ground for an adequate evaluation of Hegel's own sublation (Aufhebung) of the a priori/a posteriori divide.

scholarly journals TERSESAT NOMINA “VENTURA”

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
M Fauzi
Keyword(s):  
Venture Capital ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Public Funds ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Status ◽  
Debt Rescheduling

ABSTRAKSalah satu kasus kepailitan yang kontroversial adalah kasus permohonan pernyataan pailit dan penundaan kewajiban pembayaran utang terhadap PT BV. Secara keseluruhan, sembilan permohonan yang telah diajukan terhadap perusahaan ini ditolak oleh majelis hakim pengadilan niaga, sehingga menimbulkan kesan bahwa PT BV kebal dari proses penundaan kewajiban pembayaran utang dan kepailitan sebagaimana dalam Putusan Nomor 50/Pdt.Sus.Pailit/2014/PN.Niaga.Jkt. Pst. Ketidakcermatan majelis hakim dalam putusan tersebut menjadi permasalahan yang dikaji dalam penelitian normatif yang menggunakan pendekatan studi kasus dan pendekatan konseptual ini. Analisis Putusan Nomor 50/Pdt.Sus.Pailit/2014/PN.Niaga.Jkt.Pst menyimpulkan beberapa ketidakcermatan majelis hakim dalam pertimbangan hukumnya. Majelis hakim secara apriori menyimpulkan status bidang usaha dari dari kata "ventura" yang melekat pada nama badan hukum perusahaan, dan secara langsung mengaitkannya dengan ketentuan pembatasan hak mengajukan permohonan pernyataan pailit terhadap lembaga keuangan. Majelis hakim tidak cermat dalam menilai fungsi medium term notes dengan menyatakan medium term notes sebagai instrumen yang digunakan PT BV untuk menjalankan bidang usahanya, yaitu menghimpun dana masyarakat. Selain itu majelis hakim juga menyimpulkan PT BV sebagai perusahaan modal ventura yang berada di bawah pengawasan Otoritas Jasa Keuangan, sehingga hanya dapat diajukan pailit oleh Otoritas Jasa Keuangan. Pertimbangan ini tidak cermat karena pada kenyataannya pembatasan tersebut hanya berlaku terhadap debitor yang bidang usahanya berkaitan dengan kepentingan masyarakat luas, yang mana bidang usaha perusahaan modal ventura tidak termasuk di dalamnya.Kata kunci: lembaga kepailitan, hak mengajukan permohonan pernyataan pailit, perusahaan modal ventura. ABSTRACT One of many cases in point of controversial bankruptcy is the case of bankruptcy statement and debt rescheduling for PT BV. Overall, nine applications submitted against this company have been rejected by the judges of the commercial court, suggesting that PT BV is immune from the debt rescheduling process and bankruptcy as in Decision Number 50/Pdt.Sus.Pailit/2014/PN.Niaga.Jkt. Pst. The inaccuracy of the panel of judges in the decision becomes the core problems examined in this normative research using case studies and conceptual approach. From the analysis of Court Decision Number 50/Pdt.Sus.Pailit/2014/PN.Niaga.Jkt.Pst, it can be concluded that there are some inaccuracies of the panel of judges in their legal considerations. The panel of judges in a priori way deducing the status of the business field from the term "ventura" attached to the name of the corporate legal entity, and directly linking it to the provisions on limiting rights to submit a bankruptcy statement for financial institutions. The panel of judges was also not careful in assessing the function of medium term notes and stated that medium term notes was an instrument used by PT BV in raising public funds as its line business. Also, the panel of judges also concluded that PT BV was a venture capital company under the supervision of the Otoritas Jasa Keuangan and could only be filed for bankruptcy by the Otoritas Jasa Keuangan. This consideration is not accurate because such restrictions apply only to debtors whose scope of business relating to the public interest, not including the venture capital company's business scopes. Keywords: bankruptcy institution, right to file for bankruptcy statements, venture capital company. 

Self and Selves

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph C.S. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
A Priori ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Synthetic A Priori

Kant is committed to the reality of a subject self, outside time but active in forming experience. Timeless activity is problematic, but that can be dealt with. But he holds that the subject of experience is not an object of experience, so nothing can be known about it; this raises a problem about the status of his own theory. But he ought to allow that we can know of its existence and activity, as preconditions of experience: the Critique allows that synthetic a priori truths can be known in this way. However, its identity conditions remain unknowable. Kant’s unity of apperception shares much with Locke’s continuity of consciousness, but does not determine the identity of a thing. Personal identity is bodily identity. Only Kant’s moral philosophy justifies recognizing other selves; it could warrant ascribing a similar status to animals.

Oxford Studies in Epistemology Volume 6

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Theory ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Formal Epistemology ◽  
Ethics Of Belief ◽  
Naturalized Epistemology ◽  
New Developments ◽  
The Status ◽  
Important Field ◽  
Belief Justification

Oxford Studies in Epistemology is a biennial publication offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this important field. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board composed of leading epistemologists in North America, Europe and Australasia, it publishes exemplary papers in epistemology, broadly construed. Topics within its purview include: (a) traditional epistemological questions concerning the nature of belief, justification, and knowledge, the status of skepticism, the nature of the a priori, etc.; (b) new developments in epistemology, including movements such as naturalized epistemology, feminist epistemology, social epistemology, and virtue epistemology, and approaches such as contextualism; (c) foundational questions in decision-theory; (d) confirmation theory and other branches of philosophy of science that bear on traditional issues in epistemology; (e) topics in the philosophy of perception relevant to epistemology; (f) topics in cognitive science, computer science, developmental, cognitive, and social psychology that bear directly on traditional epistemological questions; and (g) work that examines connections between epistemology and other branches of philosophy, including work on testimony, the ethics of belief, etc. Topics addressed in volume 6 include the nature of perceptual justification, intentionality, modal knowledge, credences, epistemic supererogation, epistemic and rational norms, expressivism, skepticism, and pragmatic encroachment. The various writers make use of a variety of different tools and insights, including those of formal epistemology and decision theory, as well as traditional philosophical analysis and argumentation.

The Logicism of Frege, Dedekind, and Russell

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Demopoulos ◽  
Peter Clark
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
The Core ◽  
Common Thread ◽  
Synthetic A Priori ◽  
The Common

This article is organized around logicism's answers to the following questions: What is the basis for our knowledge of the infinity of the numbers? How is arithmetic applicable to reality? Why is reasoning by induction justified? Although there are, as is seen in this article, important differences, the common thread that runs through all three of the authors discussed in this article their opposition to the Kantian thesis that reflection on reasoning with mere concepts (i.e., without attention to intuitions formed a priori) can never succeed in providing satisfactory answers to these three questions. This description of the core of the view differs from more usual formulations which represent the opposition to Kant as an opposition to the contention that mathematics in general, and arithmetic in particular, are synthetic a priori rather than analytic.

scholarly journals In the midst of theory and practice: a foreword

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Hannes Peltonen ◽  
Knut Traisbach
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
World Society ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
The Core ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status

Abstract This foreword frames the Symposium in two ways. It summarises the core themes running through the nine ‘meditations’ in The Status of Law in World Society. Moreover, it places these themes in the wider context of Kratochwil's critical engagement with how we pursue knowledge of and in the social world and translate this knowledge into action. Ultimately, also his pragmatic approach cannot escape the tensions between theory and practice. Instead, we are in the midst of both.

The Receding Animal: Theorizing Anxiety and Attachment in Psychoanalysis from Freud to Imre Hermann

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lydia Marinelli ◽  
Andreas Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Oedipus Complex ◽  
Death Instinct ◽  
Case Histories ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Status ◽  
Animal Phobias ◽  
Indirect Observation ◽  
To Come ◽  
Wolf Man ◽  
Little Hans

ArgumentAnimals played an important role in the formation of psychoanalysis as a theoretical and therapeutic enterprise. They are at the core of texts such as Freud's famous case histories of Little Hans, the Rat Man, or the Wolf Man. The infantile anxiety triggered by animals provided the essential link between the psychology of individual neuroses and the ambivalent status of the “totem” animal in so-called primitive societies in Freud's attempt to construct an anthropological basis for the Oedipus complex in Totem and Taboo. In the following, we attempt to track the status of animals as objects of indirect observation as they appear in Freud's classical texts, and in later revisionist accounts such as Otto Rank's Trauma of Birth and Imre Hermann's work on the clinging instinct. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Freudian conception of patients' animal phobias is substantially revised within Hermann's original psychoanalytic theory of instincts which draws heavily upon ethological observations of primates. Although such a reformulation remains grounded in the idea of “archaic” animal models for human development, it allows to a certain extent to empiricize the speculative elements of Freud's later instinct theory (notably the death instinct) and to come to a more embodied account of psychoanalytic practice.

Über Gewissen und Gewissheit

2016 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina Emundts
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Categorical Imperative ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Status

AbstractThis paper suggests an understanding of the concept of “Gewissen” (conscience) according to which Gewissen is best understood as a receptivity to moral principles that corresponds to certain moral feelings. In the first part of the paper this suggestion is spelled out and alternatives to it are discussed. As is shown in the second part, this suggestion goes back to the thought of Immanuel Kant, but it can be developed even if one does not follow Kant in his understanding of the categorical imperative as an a priori principle. However, if one does not follow Kant with respect to the status of the categorical imperative, there are some interesting consequences for our understanding of conscience and especially for our understanding of its relation to knowledge and certainty. These consequences are discussed in the third part of this paper.

scholarly journals Territorial organization of the restaurant facilities of Kyiv agglomeration

2015 ◽  
pp. 79-82
Author(s):  
K. Dmytriieva
Keyword(s):  
Restaurant Industry ◽  
The Core ◽  
Industry Standards ◽  
The Status ◽  
Territorial Organization ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Surrounding Areas ◽  
Concentration Ratios

The article outlines the factors of development of the restaurant facilities in Kyiv and surrounding areas. The status of the territorial organization of the restaurant facilities of Kyiv and Kyiv region through the review of the main indicators of the industry by districts in 2013 has been analyzed. Comparison of the industry standards due to availability of these services to population needs has been performed. The result of the difference of efficiency of the restaurant industry through calculation of concentration ratios turnover has been received. Area that can be considered as the core of the restaurant industry of Kyiv agglomeration and area with the potential of growth has been identified. The article visualized by maps.

scholarly journals Tradition Versus and Modernity in Laila al-Juhani’s The Waste Paradise: An Intertextual Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1197-1202
Author(s):  
Mohammed Abdullah Abduldaim Hizabr Alhusami
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Short Story ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Saudi Women ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Story Writer

The aim of this paper is to investigate the issue of intertextuality in the novel Alfirdaws Alyabab (The Waste Paradise) by the female Saudi novelist and short story writer Laila al-Juhani. Intertextuality is a rhetoric and literary technique defined as a textual reference deliberate or subtle to some other texts with a view of drawing more significance to the core text; and hence it is employed by an author to communicate and discuss ideas in a critical style. The narrative structure of Alfirdaws Alyabab (The Waste Paradise) showcases references of religious, literary, historical, and folkloric intertextuality. In analyzing these references, the study follows the intertextual approach. In her novel The Waste Paradise, Laila al-Juhani portrays the suffering of Saudi women who are less tormented by social marginalization than by an inner conflict between openness to Western culture and conformity to cultural heritage. Intertextuality relates to words, texts, or discourses among each other. Moreover, the intertextual relations are subject to reader’s response to the text. The relation of one text with other texts or contexts never reduces the prestige of writing. Therefore, this study, does not diminish the status of the writer or the text; rather, it is in itself a kind of literary creativity. Finally, this paper aims to introduce Saudi writers in general and the female writers in particular to the world literature.

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