The Innovations of Idealism

Bubner, Rüdiger

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“…Of the many different approaches to embedding empirical data in theoretical analysis and vice versa, two philosophical approaches highlight the one chosen; a platonic-idealist approach and a Hegelian material approach. In an idealist perspective examples are always imperfect, they never perfectly render what they are supposed to exemplify, which makes it important for the scholar not to take them too seriously (Cornford, 2010, Bubner, 1995. For the Hegelian materialist there is always more in an example than in what it exemplifies.…”

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The educational desires of Danish and South Korean environmental NGOs

Lysgaard¹

2013

Environmental Education Research

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The educational desires of Danish and South Korean environmental NGOs

Lysgaard¹

2013

Environmental Education Research

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“…(Vol. 2,10) The alternative danger is to ignore the form of the dialogue, picking and choosing the content out of context. Hegel criticises Tennemann for this approach (using Plato to formulate proofs of god's existence), as well as the Neo-Platonists, who he claims elevated Platonic myths to theorems.…”

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“…Hegel embraces the manysidedness of the dialogues, rejecting the view that Plato 'merely expounded the system and doctrine of Socrates' as well as the Sophists, Pythagoreans, Heraclitus' followers and the Eleatics (Vol. 2,12). In a rather clear manner, Hegel's characterisation of Plato at times makes it clear mat he sees his own history of philosophy in the dialogues.…”

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“…(Vol. 2,14) Historically, he notes, Plato's dialogues have been seen as the outward form of this imported content, basically a kind of philosophical variety show. The elements of past philosophical views are sublated within Plato's, but Plato's thought cannot be reduced to these past thinkers.…”

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“…Hegel describes Plato's philosophy as a 'knot' in which previous one-sided philosophies are united in a concrete form (Vol. 2,13). This is quite an appropriate metaphor for approaching Plato's dialogues in general.…”

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This Site is Under Construction: Situating Hegel's Plato

Eckert

2006

Bull. Hegel Soc. G.B.

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In this paper, I examine broad features of Hegel's interpretation of Plato from his Lectures on the History of Phihsophy, noting how these features resonate with current views of Platonic philosophy. Hegel formed his interpretation of Plato under very different circumstances than those of today. Serious study of the Platonic dialogues had come to the forefront in German Idealist philosophy. As Rüdiger Bubner notes: ‘It was this tradition of thought that discovered, in an original way of its own, the authentic Plato in place of the various mediated substitutes of before, and indeed saw him as a thinker who was to provide continuing inspiration to the needs of post-Kantian philosophy’. We find Hegel holds Plato in high esteem, most famously as a ‘teacher of the human race’ alongside Aristotle. His Plato is one who is fundamentally significant in the development of philosophy, raising it to the status of science, although not in a fully systematic manner. At the same time, Hegel distinguishes his Plato from the projects of his contemporaries, Tennemann's esoteric Plato and Schleiermacher's aesthetic Plato. Hegel also forms his view of Plato at a time just prior to the development of stylometric studies of the dialogues, begun in its earliest form by K. F. Hermann (1839) and pushed forward by Lewis Campbell and Friedrich Blass in the later half of the 19th century. (This is not to claim that questions regarding the ordering of the dialogues did not arise earlier than 1839, but that they became scientific and central in Platonic interpretation with Hermann.) The pressures Hegel negotiates in his interpretation are quite distinct, especially in this last respect, yet not altogether alien. There are, I think, interesting reasons for this. (One might think that given Hegel's strong opposition to Schleiermacher (and Hegel's disposition towards development), he might have been inclined towards a developmental reading of Plato. One also might think that given his opposition to Tennemann's esotericism, he might have had more doubts about discerning a system within Plato's unsystematic dialogues. But one would be wrong on both counts.)

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Romanticism and the Re-Invention of Modern Religion

Hampton¹

2019

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Romanticism sought to respond to a comprehensive sense of spiritual crisis that characterised the late eighteenth century. The study demonstrates how the Romantics sought to bring together the new post-Kantian idealist philosophy with the inheritance of the realist Platonic-Christian tradition. With idealism they continued to champion the individual, while from Platonism they took the notion that all reality, including the self, participated in absolute being. This insight was expressed not in the language of theology or philosophy but through aesthetics, which recognised the potentiality of all creation, including artistic creation, to disclose the divine. In explicating the religious vision of Romanticism, this study offers a new historical appreciation of the movement, and furthermore demonstrates its importance for our understanding of religion today.

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The Innovations of Idealism

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