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Author Meets Critics Symposium. Alfredo Ferrarin, On Thinking and the I. Reply to my critics Clinton Tolley and Tobias Rosefeldt
No full textRelation et effectivité chez Hegel, Kant et Aristote
No full textAfter an examination of the concept of relation in Kant (Critique of pure Reason) and of relatives in Aristotle (Metaphysics, Categories), I compare and contrast Hegel’s Logic of essence, especially the cognate notion of actuality, with Kant and Aristotle. Aristotle’s relatives are not discussed by Hegel in the Logic of essence because the systematic place of Aristotle’s philosophy, with its speculative key concept of energeia, is the heart of the Logic of the Concept. I conclude by showing that for Hegel relation to other is not the final word because it cannot account for self-relation, let alone exhaust the explanation of it
Autocoscienza, riferimento dell'io e conoscenza di sé: Introduzione ad un dibattito contemporaneo
No full textSaggezza, immaginazione e giudizio pratico. Studio su Aristotele e Kant
No full textQuando ho una regola che reputo giusta, non ho ancora un criterio che mi consenta di stabilire come, quando, e in che circostanze applicarla. Senonché una regola ulteriore non si può dare, perché la regola è necessariamente astratta, indifferente al particolare e alle contingenze tipiche del mondo dell’azione. Occorre allora una capacità di immaginare e giudicare esercitata, attenta, accorta e sensibile alle circostanze della sua applicazione. Ma, più fondamentalmente ancora, per applicare un principio occorre una capacità di riconoscere una regola o un caso rilevante cui applicarla: cioè un’interpretazione del particolare come pertinente e commisurato al generale. Questo è il tema del libro, che individua in Aristotele e Kant i due autori che nella storia della filosofia hanno pensato forse più a fondo il problema del rapporto tra immaginazione e giudizio pratico e ne hanno dato una versione che, pur partendo da presupposti e esigenze simili, prospetta soluzioni molto diverse
Thinking and the I : Hegel and the Critique of Kant
No full textWhat does thinking mean for Hegel? What is the relation between thought and the I and between thought and reality?
In Thinking and the I. Hegel and the Critique of Kant, Alfredo Ferrarin seeks an answer to these questions.
Hegel's dialectic entails a radical criticism of the ordinary conception of thinking. Ferrarin shows that, according to Hegel, thought, negation, truth, reflection, and dialectic are not the conscious subjective activity of an I. Thought is instead objective in different senses. Reality as a whole is animated by a movement of thought and an unconscious logic as a spontaneity that reifies itself in determinate forms.
What Hegel calls representation is one of the ways in which thought embodies and objectivizes itself in a habitual second nature wherein it can move at ease. Ethical institutions, the logic of language, Hegel’s critique of the traditional form of judgment, and the speculative sentence are among the best illustrations of this dialectic of thought.
The book concludes with a comprehensive comparison of Hegel’s and Kant’s concepts of reason as self-critique and the relation between reason and the I, reason and history, and reason and its ends
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