Rickert's relevance : : the ontological nature and epistemological functions of values / / by Anton C. Zijderveld.
In the wake of the renewed interest in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, the neo-Kantian theories of Heinrich Rickert (1863-1936) are increasingly drawing attention. This monograph is an attempt to rescue Rickert from an undeserved oblivion by an analysis of his systematic philosophy of values. The a...
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Year of Publication: | 2006 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (378 p.) |
Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Rickert revisited
- Motives
- Rickert's philosophical relevance argued e contrario
- Systematic philosophy and heterology
- The two neo-Kantian schools
- Composition
- Chapter One: A Bird's-Eye View of Rickert's Philosophy
- Chapter Two: Critique of Vitalism
- Irrationalism and intellectualism rejected
- Systematic and surrealistic philosophy
- Intuitionism and biologism
- Darwin, facts and values
- Four types of biologism
- Biologism beyond Nietzsche
- There are no biologistic values
- Life and culture
- Vitalism's credit side
- Philosophical anthropology
- Chapter Three: Knowledge and Reality
- Epistemology and ontology
- Between Idealism and Empirism
- Basic terminology
- The subjective (immanent) and the objective (transcendent) path
- Knowledge and the subject-object dilemma
- The standpoint of immanence
- The subject as empty form
- Transcendence in the immanent standpoint
- Reality as an empty form
- The epistemological act
- The categorical imperative of judgments
- Conclusion
- Chapter Four: Facts, Values and Meaningful Acts
- The total and bifocal reality
- Facts and values
- From relativism to relationism
- Being, existing and valid meanings
- Stages of being and validity
- The meaning bestowing act
- Neither psychologism nor metaphysics
- The philosophy of culture in outline
- The systematic philosophy of values
- The formal matrix of value development
- The metaphysical principle of full-fillment
- Conclusion
- Chapter Five: The Demarcation of Natural and Cultural Science
- The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns
- The continuum of sciences
- Analytical matrix
- Nature and culture distinguished ontologically
- Observable and understandable reality
- The generalizing and individualizing methods.
- Cultural-Scientific generalization
- Empathic understanding
- Value-relationship, relating to values and abstaining from value-judgments
- Cultural-Scientific objectivity
- Causality in Cultural Science
- Conclusion
- Chapter Six: Rickert's Echo: Applications, Amplifications, Amendments
- Introduction
- General philosophy
- Legal philosophy
- History
- Sociology
- Conclusion
- Index of Names.