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120From Kant to post-Kantian idealism: German idealismAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 76 (1). 2002.German idealism has been pictured as an unwarranted deviation from the central epistemological orientation of modern philosophy, and its close historical association with German romanticism is adduced in support of this verdict. This paper proposes an interpretation of German idealism which seeks to grant key importance to its connection with romanticism without thereby undermining its philosophical rationality. I suggest that the fundamental motivation of German idealism is axiological, and tha…Read more
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13Comment on Rolf‐Peter Horstmann's ‘What is Hegel's Legacy and What Should We Do With It?’European Journal of Philosophy 7 (2): 288-291. 1999.
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54Everyday Speech and Revelatory Speech in Rosenzweig and WittgensteinPhilosophy Today 50 (1): 24-39. 2006.
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43Desdemona's Lie: Nihilism, Perfectionism, HistoricismJournal of Nietzsche Studies 44 (2): 225-245. 2013.O, who hath done this deed?nobody; I myself."Yea, I am the atheist and the godless one, who, against the will that wills nothing, will tell lies, just as Desdemona did when she lay dying.” 1 There is a distinctively Nietzschean ring to this sentence, which is taken from Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi’s open letter to Fichte in 1799, the text in which the term “nihilism” seems to have been used in a philosophically significant way for the first time. There is, in particular, an unmistakable resonance …Read more
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4All or nothing: Systematicity and nihilism in Jacobi, Reinhold, and MaimonIn Karl Ameriks (ed.), The Cambridge companion to German idealism, Cambridge University Press. pp. 95--116. 2000.
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25A Primer on German Enlightenment, With a Translation of Karl Leonhard Reinhold’s the Fundamental Concepts and Principles of EthicsPhilosophical Review 106 (1): 141. 1997.The first part of this book provides the best short overview of the German Enlightenment available in English. Although, as the author says, she “sheds no new light on the German Enlightenment but follows current views”, those views are largely unavailable in English. With admirable lucidity, Roehr covers topics such as the nature of enlightenment, theology, Freemasonry, responses to the French revolution, and moral philosophy.
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35Comment on Rolf-Peter Horstmann's 'what is Hegel's legacy and what should we do with it?'European Journal of Philosophy 7 (2). 1999.
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134All or nothing: systematicity, transcendental arguments, and skepticism in German idealismHarvard University Press. 2005.In this work, the first overview of the German Idealism that is both conceptual and methodological, Paul W. Franks offers a philosophical reconstruction that is...
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