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Modern Philosophy

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

MODERN IDEAS

  • Civic Humanism
  • Postmodernism
  • Critical theory
  • Globalization
  • Sovereignty
  • Hegel's Aesthetics

MODERN THINKERS

  • Max Sheler
  • Theodor W. Adorno
  • Jürgen Habermas
  • Max Stirner
  • Giambattista Vico
  • Albert Camus
  • Madeleine de Scudéry

MODERN QUOTES

  • "Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race"- Giambattista Vico
  • "Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken"-Albert Camus
  • "Each murder is one to many"- Jürgen Habermas
  • "The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime"-Max Stirner

MODERN PHILOSOPHICAL GROUPS AND MOVEMENTS

  • Th Kyoto school
  • The Cambridge Platonists
  • The measurement of quantum theory
  • Africana philosophy

MODERNITY IN LITERATURE

  • It was the distinction between high art and low art
  • Became extremely popular after the Victorian age
  • The lost generation went out to peruse their artistic Goals
  • The lost generation included Gertrude stein, Ernest Hemmingway,F.Scott Fittzgerald, and Waldo pierce

RENE DESCARTES 1596-1650

  • Creative mathematician
  • Natural scientist (natural philosopher)
  • And a metaphysician
  • Co-framer of the sine law of refraction
  • Used a method of doubt in his philosophy

RENE DESCARTES MAJOR WORKS

  • The discourse of the method
  • The meditations on first philosophy
  • The principles of philosophy
  • The passions of the soul
  • Treatise of man

RENE DESCARTES

  • The developer of new comprehensive physics or theory of nature
  • The proposer of new metaphysics
  • Revered for his mechanistic philosophy

DAVID HUME

  • Argued to be the most important philosopher to right in english
  • Well known historian and essayist
  • His work was argued by Charles Darwin to be a central influence on the theory of evolution
  • Hume is recognized as a very important exponent or philosophical neutralism

DAVIS HUME WORKS

  • A treatise of human nature
  • The enquiries of human understanding
  • Concerning the principles of morals
  • Dialogues concerning natural religion

IMMANUEL KANT

  • Born April 22 1724 in königsberg
  • In Kants youth his family was in need of financial help
  • Kant attended the university of Königsberg
  • He rejected his parents and teachers beliefs
  • After being introduced to philosophy by Christian Wolf Kant went into his career of teaching his philosophy

IMMANUEL KANT

  • Kant began tutoring youths around the time his parents died
  • Kant taught at albertina where he taught for four decades until he retired around 1796
  • After he published some of his best works he was hired as an unsalaried lecturer which was his main career for the majority of the rest of his life

IMMANUAL KANT WORKS

  • The false subtlety of the four syllogistical figures
  • The only possible argument in support of a demonstration of the existence of God
  • Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime

GEORG HEGEL

  • Belongs to the period of German idealism
  • Attempted to to elaborate a comprehensive and systematic ontology from a logical starting point
  • Devoted himself to ideals of religion and social reform
  • During his time in a university of Jena napoleons troops began to occupy it

GEORG HEGEL WORKS

  • The difference between fitches and schellings system of philosophy
  • The phenomenology of spirit
  • The science of logic
  • The philosophy of right

HEGELS POLITICAL STANDPOINT

  • On the recent domestic affairs of wurtemberg(1789)
  • The German constitution(written and reversed by Hegel)(published in 1893)
  • Hegel is constantly attacking old ways of thinking which brought little help to modern politics
  • Hegel suggests that customary institutions not be removed too quickly for there must be some congruence and continuity with the current social conditions
  • http://www.iep.utm.edu/hegelsoc/#H2

POST HEGELIAN PHILOSOPHERS

  • Ludwig Andreas feuerbach
  • Louis Althusser
  • Karl jaspers
  • John Anderson
  • Jacques lacan
  • Hans-Georg Gadgamer
  • Karl Marx

MY OPINIONS

  • My favorite philosopher which was discussed was Rène Descartes
  • The philosopher who honestly was my least favorite was David Hume
  • I believe that each philosopher has helped me on my path to finding my own way my own philosophy
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OTHER QUESTIONS

  • How expensive would it be to go to a class for one of these philosophers?
  • Could Hegel have taught Kant more if he were alive at the time?
  • Why are philosophers called idealists?
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MY QUESTIONS

  • How do you think the philosophers listed in this presentation would act placed in a room together?
  • If they were all students In mr. Backers intro to philosophy class which philosopher would have the best grade?
  • How would Hegel react if he was able to speak with Socrates?
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