The embodied self : Friedrich Schleiermacher's solution to Kant's problem of the empirical self

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The embodied self : Friedrich Schleiermacher's solution to Kant's problem of the empirical self

Thandeka

(SUNY series in philosophy)

State University of New York Press, c1995

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Bibliography: p. 139-144

Includes index

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This book investigates the philosophic notion of self-consciousness found in the work of Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Ernst Daniel Schleiermacher. Its central focus is on Schleiermacher's Dialektik, a posthumously published series of lectures delivered in Berlin between 1811 and 1831. In these lectures, we find Schleiermacher's most detailed delineation of the two-tiered structure of feeling (Gefühl) that established him as the father of modern Protestant theology. We also find his solution to the gap between the noumenal and empirical self in Kant's theory of self-consciousness that post-Kantian idealists attempt but failed to resolve. Schleiermacher correctly foresaw the nihilistic end to which the philosophical tradition of speculative self-consciousness would lead.

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List of Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Schleiermacher's Critique of Modern Philosophy Schleiermacher's Dialektik: An Unfamiliar Story Schleiermacher's Reconstruction of the Self Chapter One. Kant's Problem Schleiermacher Discovers Kant Kant's Moral Link to God Schleiermacher's Existential Link to 'God' Kant Discovers the Gap in His Critical Philosophy Kant's a priori Aporia: The Two Selves in Kant's First Critique Idealism's One-sidedness Chapter Two. Fichte's Insight Beck's Standpoint: Original Reconciliation Fichte's Standpoint: Intellectual Intuition Schleiermacher's Scant Praise Kant's Conflicted Condemnation Chapter Three. Schleiermacher's New Vocabulary for Consciousness The Two-fold Nature of an Act of Thinking: The Organic and Intellectual Functions Consciousness Objective and Subjective Consciousness Concepts and Judgments The Limits of Determinate Thinking Denkenwollen vs. Denken: The Will to Think vs. Actual Thinking The Ethical Subject The Physical Subject Schleiermacher's Three-fold Strategy Schleiermacher's Master Key Kant, Beck, and Fichte Revisited Chapter Four. Schleiermacher's Original Insight The Point of Indifference The Common Border The Means of Transition Anschauung: Object-less Awareness Gefühl: Subject-less Awareness The Source of Certitude The Two Tiers of Feeling Consciousness of God Conclusion Chapter Five. The Embodied Self The Two Canons of Schleiermacher's Dialektik Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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