What is Orientation? : : A Philosophical Investigation /

What is Orientation? : : A Philosophical Investigation / / Werner Stegmaier.

The very first thing one does in all situations of life is orient oneself. Decisions of orientation, which are mostly made under uncertainty and the pressure of time, largely determine subsequent decisions. But what is orientation? The problems of orientation are as old as humankind, the word is use...

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Stegmaier, Werner,
TeilnehmendeR:
Müller, Reinhard G.
MitwirkendeR:
Stegmaier, Werner,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XVII, 298 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Content
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Pre-Orientations
  • Chapter 2. First Clues: Occurrences of Orientation
  • Chapter 3. The Situation of Orientation: Time Pressure
  • Chapter 4. The Selectivity of Orientation: Views
  • Chapter 5. The Self-Arranging of Orientations by means of Horizons, Standpoints, and Perspectives
  • Chapter 6. Hold in Orientation: Points of Reference, Clues, Leads, and Footholds
  • Chapter 7. Signs as Footholds: Orientation as an Art of World Abbreviation
  • Chapter 8. The Self-Stabilization and Self-Differentiation of Orientation: Routines, Transposed Continuities, and Orientation Worlds
  • Chapter 9. The Self-Reflection of Orientation: Leeways of Thinking
  • Chapter 10. Mutual Orientation: Interaction and Communication
  • Chapter 11. The Stabilization and Differentiation of Mutual Orientation: Respecting Identities
  • Chapter 12. Reckoning with Other Orientations: Economic, Mass Media, Political, and Legal Orientations
  • Chapter 13. The Critical Disciplining of Orientation, Its Creative Disorientation, and the Hold on the Eternally Ungraspable: Science, Art, and Religion
  • Chapter 14. The Self-Binding of Orientation: Moral Orientation
  • Chapter 15. The Self-Reflection of Moral Orientation: Ethical Orientation
  • Chapter 16. World Orientation in Globalized Communication
  • Chapter 17. Metaphysics in Our Orientation
  • Chapter 18. The End of Orientation
  • Endnotes
  • Index

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