Walter Kaufmann

Goethe, Kant, and Hegel

Discovering the Mind

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This immensely readable and absorbing book - the first of a three-volume series on understanding the human mind - concentrates on three major figures who have changed our image of human beings

Produktdetails

• Discovering the Mind Series
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Transaction edition
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 154mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9780887383700
• ISBN-10: 088738370X
• Artikelnr.: 21247993

Autorenporträt

Kaufmann, Walter

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue; 1: ; 2: ; 3: Three aims; 1: Goethe and the Discovery of the Mind;
4: Goethe at twenty-one. "Autonomous from tip to toe."; 5: "Goethe's first
major contribution to the discovery of the mind is that he provided a new
model of autonomy."; 6: Goethe's alienation from the compact majority; 7:
"A significant impact on human thought by virtue of his character"; 8: The
second point about Goethe's influence on the discovery of the mind. "Man is
his deeds"; 9: "Goethe's greatest contribution to the discovery of the mind
was that, more than anyone else, he showed how the mind can be understood
only in terms of development"; 10: "Both the... new criticism and
analytical philosophy represent... revolts against this developmental
approach." Three Mephistopheles quotations; 11: "Goethe's refusal to equate
science with Newtonian science represents his fourth major contribution";
12: Why Goethe wrote so clearly and how he understood science.
"Ossification" and "hypotheses"; 13: "Goethe tended to disparage
mathematics"; 14: "Hegel... Nietzsche, Freud, and ]ung were steeped in
Goethe's life and works"; 15: "In sum, Goethe made at least four crucial
contributions to the discovery of the mind." "Those greatly influenced by
Goethe found three paths open to them"; II: Influences: Herder, Lessing,
Schiller, Fichte, Schopenhauer; 16: Herder; 17: Lessing; 18: Schiller; 19:
Fichte; 20: Schopenhauer; III: Kant: The Structure of the Mind; 21: The
impact of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason; 22: "Kant himself felt that he
had discovered the structure of the mind"; 23: The short book on ethics
which Kant published in 1785. "Stick to words"; 24: Kant's attempt to lay
the foundations for ethics; 25: "The religious inspiration of his ethic is
to be found in Moses"; 26: The example of suicide and the problem of what a
maxim is; 27: The other three examples; 28: The irrational in history and
psychology. Dichotomies. "Interest" in Kant's ethics; 29: Aesthetic
judgments "devoid of all interest"; 30: "His fundamental mistakes are
essentially the same everywhere." Kant's lack of interest in art; IV: Kant:
Autonomy, Style, and Certainty; 31: Kant's conception of autonomy. "Kant
lived as he taught"; 32: "Style is the mirror of a mind"; 33: Five ways in
which Kant impeded the discovery of the mind. The so-called patchwork
theory; 34: How the Critique of Pure Reason was written. "Hegel's
Phenomonology was written in very much the same way," and so was Sartre's
Critique; 35: "Kant... impressed this trinity of certainty, completeness,
and necessity on his successors." "If one makes bold to lay down
certainties for all time... a lack of clarity is all too understandable."
Timidity and boldness. Contrast with Lessing and Goethe; 36: "Not hiding my
emotions may make it easier for you to discover your feelings and your
mind"; V: Hegel's Three Conceptions of Phenomenology; 37: "The fundamental
conflict... is between Kant and Goethe"; 38: "Initially, he put Kant's
doctrines into Jesus' mouth. ... Then he read Goethe's image of humanity
into Christianity." "Like Kant, he associated science with rigorous
deduction, necessity, certainty, and completeness; and the more he claimed
to be rigorous the more unreadable he became, as he veiled his overwhelming
lack of rigor behind extreme obscurity"; 39: Non-Hegelian conceptions of
phenomenology. "Hegel's own ideas about what he was trying to accomplish in
his first book changed while he was writing it... and the subtitle...
[Phenomenology of the Mind] was an afterthought." The genesis of the work.
"Hegel used 'phenomenology' in an altogether different way... in 1817."
"The question about Hegel's conception of phenomenology... [is] usable as a
key to the study of his whole thought and development." Seven questions;
40: What did Hegel say about phenomenology in the preface of 1807?"; 41:
"How does the Introduction to the Phenomenology illuminate Hegel's
conception?"; 42: "What did Hegel actually do in his Phenomenology?"; 43:
"What did Hegel say about phenomenology between 1807 and 1817?"
"Necessity."; 44: "What conception of phenomenology do we find in the
Encyclopedia?"; 45: "How, in view of all this, can we sum up his
conception?" "A great deal of philosophy has been utterly lacking in rigor,
and what troubles me is not that but the... affectation of a rigor that is
not there." Austin and Wittgenstein; 46: "How did Hegel advance the
discovery of the mind?" Five points