Suchergebnisse

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Theory of Drive: The Dual Legacy of Leibniz's Theory of Appetition -- Chapter 3: Between Reimarus and Kant: Blumenbach's Concept of Trieb -- Chapter 4: Stoic dispositional innatism and Herder's concept of force -- Chapter 5: The economy of the Bildungstrieb in Goethe's comparative anatomy -- Chapter 6: "Wie die Triebe, so der Sinn; und wie der Sinn, so die Triebe": Jacobi on Reason as a Form of Life -- Chapter 7: Kant on Driving Forces: Parallels and Differences in Kant's Conceptualization of Trieb and Triebfeder -- Chapter 8: The drive to society in Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment -- Chapter 9: Feeling and life in Kant's account of the beautiful and the sublime -- Chapter 10: Equine Driving: Plato, Kant and Fichte on the Teamwork of the Mind -- Chapter 11: "The drive to be an I is at the same time the drive to think and to feel." Hardenberg/Novalis on Drives, Faculties and Powers -- Chapter 12: Drive, Will, and Reason: Reinhold and Schiller on Realizing Freedom after Kant -- Chapter 13: Drives in Schelling: Drives as cognitive faculties -- Chapter 14: The Trieb of Dialectic—Systematic and Thematic Extension of the Concept of Trieb in Hegel -- Chapter 15: Trieb and Triebe in Schopenhauer's metaphysics of nature.

Reconstructs Bergson's philosophy of biology in dialogue with the life sciences of todayCritically reappraises Bergson's evolutionary metaphysicsIncludes summaries, interpretations and evaluations of Bergson's various engagements with evolutionary theory Provides a counterpoint to the traditional understanding of Bergson as a phenomenologist Offers a critical rejoinder to Bergson's reputation as a metaphysical vitalist by bringing his work into dialogue with arguments and issues in the philosophy of scienceMakes a strong case for Bergson's interdisciplinary relevance outside of the typical fields of philosophy, literature and the artsWe are in the midst of a return to Henri Bergson – the French philosopher whose influence touches the fields of continental philosophy, literary theory and art theory. This revival of interest in his work could even be called a full-blown Bergson renaissance. Tano S. Posteraro contributes to this increasingly serious study of Bergson's philosophy with a tight focus on Bergson's theory of evolution. He presents an alternative Bergson: not a phenomenologist whose central concern is the conscious experience of lived time or the lived body in time, but a systematic philosopher of biology with a robust, prescient and largely workable evolutionary programme

Throughout the Western world the decline of religion has left a moral vacuum in many people's lives. Many people are no longer certain of life's ultimate objectives. Dr R.B. Cattell offers a solution in his new book Beyondism (1987). (SJO)