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Modern Philosophy

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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MODERN IDEAS

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

  • Max Sheler
  • Theodor W. Adorno
  • Jürgen Habermas
  • Max Stirner
  • Giambattista Vico
  • Albert Camus
  • Madeleine de Scudéry
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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
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MODERN PHILOSOPHICAL GROUPS AND MOVEMENTS

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

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

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

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

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