Overcoming Foundations

Studies in Systematic Philosophy

Richard Dien Winfield (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

318 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-87921-5 (ISBN)

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First published in 1989, Overcoming Foundations offers a challenge to both postmodernism and traditional doctrines of knowledge and value by undertaking a systematic philosophy without foundations. United by a concern for overcoming foundations without overcoming philosophy, the essays in this book discuss a wide range of issues in epistemology and ethics, incorporating analysis of major thinkers of the past and present and drawing critically on Hegel’s argument. The book unveils the dogmatic assumption of the futility of philosophy’s traditional quests for universal truth and ethics and lays out the strategy for achieving autonomy of reason and valid norms of conduct without foundational appeals.

After examining how a critique of foundations can be executed without making new foundational claims, Winfield considers how philosophy must operate in order to think truth without given conceptual schemes and to achieve rational autonomy. Finally, the author explores the implications of a reason free of foundations for the history of philosophy and the debates embroiling contemporary thought. The essays outline an independent theory of justice, rethinking morality, and the structures of civil society and democratic government. Overcoming Foundations advances a much ignored philosophical alternative, a systematic contribution to epistemology, ethics, and social and political philosophy.

Richard Dien Winfield is an American Philosopher and Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia. He has been President of the Society for Systematic Philosophy, the Hegel Society of America, and the Metaphysical Society of America.

Introduction Part I: Beyond Foundations to Systematic Philosophy 1. The Route to Foundation- Free Systematic Philosophy 2. Dialectical Logic and the Conception of Truth 3. Conceiving Something without any Conceptual Scheme 4. Logic, Language, and the Autonomy of Reason: Reflections on the Place of Hegel's Analysis of Thinking 5. The Apotheosis of Inter Subjectivity 6. Hegel Versus the New Orthodoxy 7. Can Philosophy have a Rational History? Part II: The Foundation-Free Ethics of Freedom 8. The Limits of Morality 9. Capital, Civil Society, and the Deformation of Politics 10. The Reason for Democracy 11. The Logic of the State 12. The Theory and Practice of the History of Freedom: The Right of History in Hegel's Philosophy of Right Notes Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.11.2024
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Revivals
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	752 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
ISBN-10	1-032-87921-1 / 1032879211
ISBN-13	978-1-032-87921-5 / 9781032879215
Zustand	Neuware