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• Anthropologisme

  Per Saint Aubert (2006 Ch I §2), Merleau-Ponty's anthropologisme is not the same as anthropologie. It is the negative humanism of the humanisme criticiste — Brunschvicg's "humanisme radical où tout est construit et tout est donné" — extend…

• Christian Wolff

  German philosopher (1679–1754), the systematizer of post-Leibnizian rationalism into the Schulphilosophie that dominated the eighteenth-century German universities until Kant. Author of two parallel encyclopedic systems — the Vernünftige G…

• der Begriff (the Concept, Hegel)

  Hegel's Begriff (capital C in English: "the Concept") is the central category of the Subjective Logic and the truth into which substance dialectically resolves itself. It is not what Kantian, Fregean, or ordinary-language usage calls a "co…

• die Idee (the Idea, Hegel)

  Die Idee — the Idea — is the third and culminating moment of the Doctrine of the Concept (GW 12 pp. 173–253), positioned after Subjectivität (Begriff / Urtheil / Schluß) and Objectivität (Mechanism / Chemism / Teleology). The Idea is the a…

• Erkennen (Cognition, Hegel)

  Erkennen — Cognition — is the second shape of die Idee in the Doctrine of the Concept (GW 12 pp. 192–243), positioned between Life and the absolute Idea. Cognition is the Idea split into the theoretical (subjective Idea seeking the Object)…

• Erscheinung (Appearance, Hegel)

  Erscheinung — appearance — is the second moment of the Zweyter Abschnitt of the Doctrine of Essence (GW 11 raw 5466–5635), positioned between Existenz (and the Ding-doctrine) and wesentliches Verhältnis. Hegel's cardinal thesis: "Das Wesen…

• Existenz (Existence, Hegel)

  Existenz — existence — is the first category of the Zweyter Abschnitt of the Doctrine of Essence (GW 11 raw 5266–5306). Existenz is mediated immediacy that has come forth from Grund: not a property of Wesen but Wesen's externalization, the…

• Freedom (Hegel)

  Freyheit — freedom — is the cardinal categorial achievement of the Concept in the Doctrine of the Concept (GW 12). The cardinal formulations:

• Immanuel Kant

  German philosopher (1724-1804), author of the three Critiques. In Merleau-Ponty's philosophy, Kant represents both the paradigm of transcendental thinking and its fundamental limitation: Kant grasps the necessity of the transcendental turn…

• Law of Tact

  Derrida's name (in On Touching—Jean-Luc Nancy §4, p. 77) for the quasi-transcendental commandment to touch without touching, prior to any religion, culture, or ritual abstinence. The law of tact is "the law itself, the law of the law": "on…

• Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology in the light of Kant's Third Critique and Schelling's Real-Idealismus Sebastian Gardner, 2016

  Author(s): Sebastian Gardner (University College London) Year: 2016 Type: Paper (Continental Philosophy Review, DOI 10.1007/s11007-016-9393-1)

• Modal Triad (Wirklichkeit / Möglichkeit / Notwendigkeit, Hegel)

  The modal triad — Wirklichkeit (actuality), Möglichkeit (possibility), Notwendigkeit (necessity) — structures the central chapter of the Dritter Abschnitt of the Doctrine of Essence (GW 11 raw 5851–6131). Each term is a categorial moment,…

• Objectivität (Objectivity, Hegel)

  Objectivität — objectivity — is the second moment of the Doctrine of the Concept (GW 12 pp. 127–172), positioned between Subjectivität (Begriff / Urtheil / Schluß) and die Idee. Objectivität is "the Concept fallen into objectivity" — and i…

• Ontologie de l'objet

  Merleau-Ponty's cardinal late-period polemical category — the ontologie de l'objet names any ontology that treats being on the model of the frontal observable object. The unifier behind Descartes, Kant, Sartre, and Piaget is not their disa…

• Parergon

  Derrida's figure for the structure that "disconcerts any opposition" between inside and outside of the work of art, developed in The Truth in Painting / La vérité en peinture (1978; trans. Bennington–McLeod 1987). The word — Greek παρέργον…

• Phenomenal Field

  Merleau-Ponty's name for the properly transcendental field that is neither an objective domain (science) nor an inner world (introspection) — the layer of "living experience through which other people and things are first given to us, the…

• Phenomenology of Perception Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1945

  Author: Maurice Merleau-Ponty Year: 1945 (this reading: Donald A. Landes translation, Routledge 2012, with Foreword by Taylor Carman and Claude Lefort's 1974 essay "Maurice Merleau-Ponty") Type: Book (Merleau-Ponty's Docteur ès lettres maj…

• Philosophical Archeology

  Leonard Lawlor's (Ch 2 of Thinking through French Philosophy) genealogical reconstruction of archeology as a properly philosophical concept — not a methodological-historical one — with a six-characteristic pre-history in Freud (Dora; Civil…

• Philosophy of Reflection

  Merleau-Ponty's name (la philosophie réflexive) for the family of philosophical positions running from Descartes through Kant to Husserl that take reflection — the conversion of perception into thought of perceiving — as the founding philo…

• Pre-objectivity

  The central concept of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception: the realm of experience prior to objective thought, which constitutes the deepest level of the subject's relation to the world. Pre-objectivity is not "blind" Kantian intu…

• Quantität (Hegel)

  Quantität (also Größe) is the second Abschnitt of the Doctrine of Being (GW 21 raw 2843–4659), positioned between Fürsichseyn (the close of Qualität) and Maß (the categorial unity of Qualität and Quantität). Hegel's signature claim: Quanti…

• Schein (Semblance / Show, Hegel)

  Schein — semblance, show, illusion — is the second category of the Doctrine of Essence (GW 11 raw 4344–4378), positioned between Wesen-as-such and Reflexion. Hegel's cardinal thesis: "Der Schein ist das eigene Setzen des Wesens" (raw 4308…

• Schlechte vs. wahre Unendlichkeit (Bad vs. True Infinity)

  Hegel's distinction between the schlechte (bad / spurious) and wahre (true / affirmative) infinity is the signature thesis of the Unendlichkeit-chapter of the Doctrine of Being (GW 21 raw ~2270–2438). The locus classicus: "die Hauptsache i…

• Teleology (Hegel)

  Teleologie is the third and culminating sub-moment of Objectivität in the Doctrine of the Concept (GW 12 pp. 154–172). For Hegel, teleology is not a regulative maxim of reflective judgment (Kant's restriction in the Critique of Judgment) a…

• Theodicy

  The philosophical project of justifying God's permission of evil in creation — coined by Leibniz in his 1710 Essais de théodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l'homme et l'origine du mal. The Love & Schmidt editors' Introduction to t…

• Thought's Indebtedness to Being Sebastian Gardner, 2020

  Author(s): Sebastian Gardner (University College London) Year: 2020 (in G. Anthony Bruno, ed., Schelling's Philosophy: Freedom, Nature, and Systematicity, OUP; DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198812814.003.0012). Dated "2018" in the wiki slug because…

• Transcendental Apperception (Kant / Hegel)

  The transcendental unity of apperception — Kant's "I think" that must be able to accompany all my representations (Critique of Pure Reason B132) — is, for Kant, the highest principle of the understanding's a-priori synthesis of intuitions.…

• Unvordenklich / Unvordenklichkeit

  Schelling's late term for being that "pre-dates thought, possibility, and the PSR" — being which cannot be thought away because thought itself arrives in possibility, and possibility presupposes this being. In Gardner's reconstruction, unv…

• Wechselwirkung (Reciprocal Action, Hegel)

  Wechselwirkung — reciprocal action — is the closing category of the Doctrine of Essence (GW 11 raw 6377–6397). Hegel's signature claim: Wechselwirkung is not the truth — it is the dissolution of the Causalitätsverhältnis but not itself the…

• Wesentliches Verhältnis (Essential Relation, Hegel)

  The wesentliche Verhältniß — essential relation — is the closing triadic structure of the Erscheinung-section of the Doctrine of Essence (GW 11 raw 5637–5848). Three stages, each formally incomplete because identity and difference of the r…