Between Crisis and War: Philosophising?
Year one
The first workshops: what philosophy is, nature and freedom, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant. Video #1.1 was lost; session #1.2 goes back over the basics.
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#1.2 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
Why does philosophy always arise from crisis, and what distinguishes it from other forms of thought?
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#1.3 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
What can I know, and why does empiricism, which puts us in contact with reality, fail to reach truth?
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#1.4 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
Why did modern thought banish the notion of end, and how can it be rehabilitated without returning to naive finalism?
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#1.5 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
How can science work, that is, how can the sequence of phenomena follow that of concepts, and what does Kant change by making the subject of knowledge an active subject?
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#1.6 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
What does Kant change by making the subject the legislator of knowledge, and why does this emancipation of the subject lead to the question of freedom?
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#1.7 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
Why does the philosophy of knowledge lead to the question "what must I do?", and what content should be given to freedom?
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#1.8 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
What becomes of philosophy when, in place of the good, modernity posits freedom as foundation, with the negativity and possibilities of evil that this opens up?