The essence of human freedom : an introduction to philosophy /: an introduction to philosophy. (2005)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Vom Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit.
• Further Information: Note: Martin Heidegger ; translated by Ted Sadler.
• Other Names: Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976; Sadler, Ted, 1952-
• Contents: 1. The Apparent Contradiction between the 'Particular' Question Concerning the Essence of Human Freedom and the 'General' Task of an Introduction to Philosophy -- Part 1. Positive Definition of Philosophy From the Content of the Problem of Freedom / The Problem of Human Freedom and the Fundamental Question of Philosophy -- Chapter 1. First Breakthrough to the Proper Dimension of the Problem of Freedom in Kant. The Connection of the Problem of Freedom with the Fundamental Problems of Metaphysics -- 2. Philosophy as Inquiring into the Whole. Going-after-the-Whole as Going-to-the-Roots -- 3. Formal-Indicative Discussion of 'Positive Freedom' by Reconsideration of 'Transcendental' and 'Practical' Freedom in Kant -- 4. Broadening of the Problem of Freedom within the Perspective of the Cosmological Problem as Indicated in the Grounding Character of 'Transcendental Freedom': Freedom -- Causality -- Movement -- Beings as Such -- 5. The Questionable Challenging Character of the Broadened Problem of Freedom and the Traditional Form of the Leading Question of Philosophy. Necessity of a Renewed Interrogation of the Leading Question -- Chapter 2. The Leading Question of Philosophy and Its Questionability. Discussion of the Leading Question from Its Own Possibilities and Presuppositions -- 6. Leading Question of Philosophy ([characters not reproducible]) as the Question Concerning the Being of Beings -- 7. Preconceptual Understanding of Being and Greek Philosophy's Basic Word for Being: [characters not reproducible] -- 8. Demonstration of the Hidden Fundamental Meaning of [characters not reproducible] (Constant Presence) in the Greek Interpretation of Movement, What-Being, and Being-Actual (Being-Present) -- 9. Being, Truth, Presence. The Greek Interpretation of Being as Being-True in the Horizon of Being as Constant Presence. The [characters not reproducible] as [characters not reproducible] (Aristotle, Metaphysics [characters not reproducible] 10) -- 10. The Actuality of Spirit in Hegel as Absolute Presence -- Chapter 3. Working the Leading Question of Metaphysics through to the Fundamental Question of Philosophy -- 11. The Fundamental Question of Philosophy as the Question Concerning the Primordial Connection between Being and Time -- 12. Man as the Site of the Fundamental Question. Understanding of Being as the Ground of the Possibility of the Essence of Man -- 13. The Challenging Character of the Question of Being (Fundamental Question) and the Problem of Freedom. The Comprehensive Scope of Being (Going-after-the-Whole) and the Challenging Individualization (Going-to-the-Roots) of Time as the Horizon of the Understanding of Being -- 14. Switching the Perspective of the Question: the Leading Question of Metaphysics as Grounded in the Question of the Essence of Freedom -- Part 2. Causality and Freedom / Transcendental and Practical Freedom in Kant -- Chapter 1. Causality and Freedom as Cosmological Problem. The First Way to Freedom in the Kantian System: the Question of the Possibility of Experience as the Question of the Possibility of Genuine Metaphysics -- 15. Preliminary Remark on the Problem of Causality in the Sciences -- 16. First Attempt at Characterizing the Kantian Conception of Causality and Its Fundamental Contexture: Causality and Temporal Succession -- 17. General Characterization of the Analogies of Experience -- 18. Discussion of the Mode of Proof of the Analogies of Experience and Their Foundation from the Example of the First Analogy. The Fundamental Meaning of the First Analogy -- 19. The Second Analogy. Occurrence, Temporal Succession and Causality -- 20. Two Kinds of Causality: Natural Causality and the Causality of Freedom. The General Ontological Horizon of the Problem of Freedom in the Definition of Freedom as a Kind of Causality. The Connection between Causality in General and Being-Present as a Mode of Being -- 21. The Systematic Site of Freedom according to Kant -- 22. Causality through Freedom. Freedom as Cosmological Idea -- 23. The Two Kinds of Causality and the Antithetic of Pure Reason in the Third Antinomy -- 24. Preparatory (Negative) Determinations Towards Resolution of the Third Antinomy -- 25. The Positive Resolution of the Third Antinomy. Freedom as the Causality of Reason: Transcendental Idea of an Unconditioned Causality. Character and Limits of the Problem of Freedom within the Problem of the Antinomies -- Chapter 2. The Second Way to Freedom in the Kantian System. Practical Freedom as Specific to Man as a Rational Being -- 26. The Essence of Man as a Being of Sense and Reason. The Distinction Between Transcendental and Practical Freedom -- 27. The Actuality of Human (Practical) Freedom -- 28. The Consciousness of Human Freedom and Its Actuality -- Conclusion: The Proper Ontological Dimension of Freedom. The Rootedness of the Question of Being in the Question Concerning the Essence of Human Freedom. Freedom as the Ground of Causality -- 29. The Limits of the Kantian Discussion of Freedom. Kant's Binding of the Problem of Freedom to the Problem of Causality -- 30. Freedom as the Condition of the Possibility of the Manifestness of the Being of Beings, i.e. of the Understanding of Being -- Editor's Afterword to the German Edition of July 1981 -- English-German Glossary -- Greek-English Glossary.
• Publisher Details: London : Continuum
• Publication Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource (240 pages)
• Subjects: 123.5; Free will and determinism; Free will and determinism; Vrije wil; Metaphysica (Aristoteles)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441199812; 1441199810
• Related ISBNs: 9781846840395
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