Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806)

2021 ◽  
pp. 62-84
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Human Relation ◽  
Philosophy Of Nature ◽  
Johann Gottlieb Fichte ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Environmental Thought ◽  
Unpublished Works

This chapter presents three unpublished works by Karoline von Günderrode. In them, Günderrode discusses and assesses the moral philosophy of Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Schelling’s philosophy of nature, while also developing her own ethical account of the human relation to the earth in the essay “Idea of the Earth.” Widely regarded as her most important and radical contribution, “Idea of the Earth” distinguishes Günderrode among her contemporaries and places her in proximity to current environmental thought.

scholarly journals The Human Vocation and the Question of the Earth: Karoline von Günderrode’s Philosophy of Nature

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia Nassar
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Relation ◽  
Philosophy Of Nature ◽  
Critical Response ◽  
The Earth

Abstract Contra widespread readings of Karoline von Günderrode’s 1805 “Idea of the Earth (Idee der Erde)” as a creative adaptation of Schelling’s philosophy of nature, this article proposes that “Idea of the Earth” furnishes a moral account of the human relation to the natural world, one which does not map onto any of the more well-known romantic or idealist accounts of the human-nature relation. Specifically, I argue that “Idea of the Earth” responds to the great Enlightenment question concerning the human vocation, but from a distinctive romantic-idealist angle. I begin by demonstrating the influence of Fichte’s 1800 Vocation of Humanity on Günderrode’s thinking, which involves an investigation of both Fichte’s text and Günderrode’s critical response to it. I then turn to “Idea of the Earth” where I analyse Günderrode’s understanding of nature and the self in light of her critique of Fichte, and thereby distinguish her position from Fichte’s and from the position espoused by her fellow romantics and idealists. By reading “Idea of the Earth” alongside Fichte’s text and Günderrode’s remarks on it, this article sheds new light on both Günderrode’s understanding and defence of Naturphilosophie – against Fichte’s critique of it – and her distinctive contribution to romantic philosophies of nature.

The Geological Unconscious

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Groves
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Literary History ◽  
German Language ◽  
Stable Point ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Current Climate ◽  
Environmental Thought ◽  
History Of ◽  
Point Of Reference

Already in the nineteenth century, German-language writers were contending with the challenge of imagining and accounting for a planet whose volatility bore little resemblance to the images of the Earth then in circulation. In The Geological Unconcious, Jason Groves traces the withdrawal of the lithosphere as a reliable setting, unobtrusive backdrop, and stable point of reference for literature written well before the current climate breakdown, let alone the technologies that could forecast those changes. Through a series of careful readings of romantic, realist, and modernist works by Tieck, Goethe, Stifter, Benjamin, and Brecht, the author traces out a geological unconscious—in other words, unthought and sometimes actively repressed geological knowledge—where it manifests in European literature and environmental thought. This inhuman horizon of reading and interpretation offers a new literary history of the Anthropocene in a period where this novel geological epoch, though arguably already underway, remains unnamed and otherwise unmarked. These close readings also unearth an entanglement of the human and the lithic in periods well before the geological turn of cotemporary cultural studies. In those depictions of human-mineral encounters on which The Geological Unconcious lingers, the minerality of the human and the minerality of the imagination becomes apparent. While The Geological Unconcious does not explicitly set out to imagine alternatives to fossil capitalism, in elaborating a range of such encounters and in registering libidinal investments in the lithosphere that extend beyond Carboniferous deposits and beyond any carbon imaginary, it points toward alternative relations with, and less destructive mobilizations of, the geologic.

Cardano, Girolamo (1501–76)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eckhard Kessler
Keyword(s):  
Functional Analysis ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Nature ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Medical Paradigm ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Almost All

The Renaissance Italian Girolamo Cardano is famous for his colourful personality, as well as for his work in medicine and mathematics, and indeed in almost all the arts and sciences. He was an eclectic philosopher, and one of the founders of the so-called new philosophy of nature developed in the sixteenth century. He used both the Aristotelian and the Neoplatonic traditions as starting points, and following the medical paradigm of organic being, he transformed the traditional Aristotelian universe into an animated universe in which, thanks to their organic functional order, all individual parts strive towards the conservation both of themselves and of the whole universe. As a result, they can be subjected to a functional analysis. In his more casual writings on moral philosophy, Cardano showed his orientation to be basically Stoic.

scholarly journals Envers un repertori conceptual de la poesia de Narcís Vinyoles

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Salvador Cuenca Almenar
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Nature ◽  
Conceptual History

Resum: L’obra lírica de Narcís Vinyoles es pot caracteritzar pel sincretisme formal i temàtic, típic de la València del pas del segle XV al XVI, un espai eclèctic on s’unien influències diverses. En aquest espai receptor Vinyoles construí la seua obra amb tres llengües: català, castellà i italià, i amb inspiracions temàtiques divergents. Des del punt de vista temàtic, un dels elements barrejats pel poeta valencià fou el filosoficoconceptual. En aquest treball detectaré els conceptes i, sense explicarlos en profunditat, explicitaré l’ús que en fa el poeta valencià. Dividiré el repertori conceptual en cinc apartats, segons la disciplina a la qual pertanguen: epistemologia, filosofia de la natura,metafísica, filosofia moral i teologia.Paraules clau: Narcís Vinyoles; història conceptual; poesia i filosofiaAbstract: Narcís Vinyoles’s poetry can be depicted by its formal and thematic syncretism, representative of Valencia at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries, an eclectic city where diverse influences inextricably merged. In this receiving place Vinyoles built up his works with three languages, namely, Catalan, Castilian and Italian, and with different thematic inspirations. Thematically speaking, philosophical concepts are one of the elements mingled by the Valencian poet. In this paper I will only detect these concepts and specify the use made by Vinyoles without the explanation. The repertoire will be divided in five parts, according to the discipline to which concepts belong: epistemology, philosophy of nature, metaphysics, moral philosophy and theology.Keywords: Narcís Vinyoles, Conceptual History, Poetry and Philosophy

scholarly journals The moral philosophy of nature: Spiritual Amazonian conceptualizations of the environment

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Gregorio Abad Espinoza
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Physical Condition ◽  
Amazon Rainforest ◽  
Philosophy Of Nature ◽  
Ecuadorian Amazon ◽  
Intimate Relations ◽  
Harmful Effects ◽  
The Way

It is well known the harmful effects that savage capitalism has been causing to the environment since its introduction in a sphere in which a different logic and approach to nature are the essential conditions for the maintenance of the ecosystem and its complex relations between humans and non-human organisms. The amazon rainforest is a portion of the planet in which for thousands of years its human dwellers have been interacting with nature that it is understood beyond its physical condition. Thus, to what extent Amazonian’s approaches to nature could be considered as a moral philosophy through which the way of conceptualizing nature and its non-human denizens enhances the continuity of life and the intimate relations between entities? To answer this question, I will explore the cosmological system of the Shuar of the Ecuadorian Amazon with whom I lived for 5 months between July and November 2018, and thereby elucidate the spiritual relations that this society has with the metaphysical domain of nature.

scholarly journals Thales on Water

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-90
Author(s):  
Ryszard Legutko
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
General View ◽  
Philosophy Of Nature ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Earth ◽  
First Case

The paper attempts to reconstruct Thales’ argument about water, which is rightly considered to be the core of his philosophy of nature. It consists of two separate arguments – one biological and the other physical – which ascribe to water two different functions: in the first case, it is a source of life on the earth or, in another version, a source of life of the earth in its entirety; in the second case, it is something that supports the earth in its stationary position in the cosmos. These two arguments indicate that Thales’ notion of water was meant to answer more than just one question about nature. This, in turn, might justify the use of the concept of arche, which Aristotle attributed to the Ionian philosophers, even though Thales had obviously never used the term. The concept may somehow accurately render Thales’ more general view of water. It should be noted, however, that if the term arche can be applied to Thales’ views, then it is only in the sense related to the “coming-to-be”. Thales’ arguments did not apply – contrary to what some doxographers said and what certain scholars still maintain – to the question of the end, or perishing of physical things, the problem taken up only by later Ionians. To put it differently, Thales never claimed that the physical things which die or undergo destruction change into water.

Phenomenology and Environmental Ethics

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Toadvine
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Phenomenological Research ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Critical Distance ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Environmental Thought ◽  
Metaphysical Naturalism

The historically rich and diverse tradition of phenomenology has contributed broadly to the emergence of environmental thought across the humanities and social sciences and is increasingly influential on environmental ethics and philosophy. Emphasizing the primacy of experience and inquiry into the epistemological and ontological assumptions that inform the historical and contemporary relationship with nature, phenomenology takes a critical distance from metaphysical naturalism and the instrumental framing of environmental problems in resourcist, technological, economic, and managerial terms. The tradition’s distinctive contributions to environmental ethics include its focus on the epistemic and ontological revindication of experience, its critique of metaphysical and modernist assumptions, and its aim to articulate a post-metaphysical conception of the self-world relation and an alternative ethos appropriate to our experience of nature. Key concepts that inform current phenomenological research in environmental ethics include the lifeworld, the earth and elements, the chiasm, and poetic dwelling.

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