Herder's Way to "Sentio, ergo sum"

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  • 「われ感ず、ゆえにわれ在り」のヘルダーにおける成立
  • 「 ワレ カンズ 、 ユエニ ワレ アリ 」 ノ ヘルダー ニ オケル セイリツ

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In On the Sense of Touch and the Fourth Grove of the Critical Forests (both written in 1769, but published posthumously), Herder showed the position "sentio, ergo sum." This paper aims to make clear what led Herder to this position, in order to consider the possibility of "sentio, ergo sum" as an alternative of the Cartesian "cogito, ergo sum." "Sentio, ergo sum" in On the Sense of Touch is, on the one hand, said not only in terms of the "Molyneux's problem," but from the view that it is the highest concept of philosophy to sense the impenetrability of materials, by means of which the precritical Kant, Herder's teacher, criticized the mind-body dualism and claimed to give only the temporary answer "where I sense, there I am." Herder criticized this by the counterexample "mental impenetrability" and upgraded the above "temporary" answer to the "highest concept of philosophy." "Sentio, ergo sum" in the Fourth Grove of the Critical Forests is, on the other hand, the consequence of Herder's formal criticism of Crusius, who criticized "cogito, ergo sum" be "conscius sum me cogitare, ergo sum." "Being" was for Herder the unresolvable concept which we can only sense.

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  • Aesthetics

    Aesthetics 66 (1), 53-64, 2015

    The Japanese Society for Aesthetics

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