22 ideas
15038 | Structuralism systematically abstracted the event from sciences, and even from history [Foucault] |
22024 | Fichte's subjectivity struggles to then give any account of objectivity [Pinkard on Fichte] |
15044 | 'Truth' is the procedures for controlling which statements are acceptable [Foucault] |
15042 | Truth doesn't arise from solitary freedom, but from societies with constraints [Foucault] |
22017 | Normativity needs the possibility of negation, in affirmation and denial [Fichte, by Pinkard] |
17535 | Dispositionality has its own distinctive type of modality [Mumford/Anjum] |
22018 | Necessary truths derive from basic assertion and negation [Fichte, by Pinkard] |
15037 | Why does knowledge appear in sudden bursts, and not in a smooth continuous development? [Foucault] |
22064 | Fichte's logic is much too narrow, and doesn't deduce ethics, art, society or life [Schlegel,F on Fichte] |
22032 | Fichte's key claim was that the subjective-objective distinction must itself be subjective [Fichte, by Pinkard] |
22020 | We only see ourselves as self-conscious and rational in relation to other rationalities [Fichte] |
22060 | The Self is the spontaneity, self-relatedness and unity needed for knowledge [Fichte, by Siep] |
22066 | Novalis sought a much wider concept of the ego than Fichte's proposal [Novalis on Fichte] |
22016 | The self is not a 'thing', but what emerges from an assertion of normativity [Fichte, by Pinkard] |
22019 | Consciousness of an object always entails awareness of the self [Fichte] |
22061 | Judgement is distinguishing concepts, and seeing their relations [Fichte, by Siep] |
22023 | Fichte's idea of spontaneity implied that nothing counts unless we give it status [Fichte, by Pinkard] |
15043 | Every society has a politics of truth, concerning its values, functions, prestige and mechanisms [Foucault] |
15040 | Marxists denounced power as class domination, but never analysed its mechanics [Foucault] |
15041 | Power doesn't just repress, but entices us with pleasure, artefacts, knowledge and discourse [Foucault] |
15039 | History lacks 'meaning', but it can be analysed in terms of its struggles [Foucault] |
22065 | Fichte reduces nature to a lifeless immobility [Schlegel,F on Fichte] |