Philosophical Investigations Contesting the End of Humanity
Description
This book tackles the key theoretical and practical challenges confronting humanity as it stands at the brink of self-destruction. Its wide ranging investigations counter the enfeeblement of thought and action by showing how reason can free itself of bondage to the principle of non-contradiction and reduction to calculation, how the reigning dogmas that block true knowledge of mind and obscure the limitations of artificial intelligence can be overcome, how language enables rather than limits the freedom of thinking and conduct, how the concrete context of action cannot rob it of its autonomy, why capital punishment is illegitimate, how caste can be overcome and religion can be reformed to be compatible with democracy, how fascism can be philosophically refuted, and how nuclear and climate change Armageddon can be averted in an era of globalization.
This book is essential reading for all scholars, researchers and advanced students of political philosophy and German idealism.
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Richard Dien Winfield is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia, where he has taught since 1982. He received his BA from Yale College, his MA from the University of Heidelberg, and his PhD from Yale University. This is Winfield's 25th book of philosophy. Winfield ran for the US House of Representatives in 2018 and the US Senate in 2020 to represent the state of Georgia on a Job Guarantee Social Rights Agenda.
Content
Ch 1: Introduction.- Ch 2: Negation, Contradiction, and Hegel's Emancipation of Truth, Right, and Beauty.- Ch 3: Reason in the History of Philosophy: How Philosophy Must Conceive its Own Development.- Ch 4: The Liberation of Philosophical Psychology: Unshackling Mind from the Dogmas Barring its True Self-Conception.- Ch 5: Language and Self-Determination.- Ch 6: Lessons of Aristotle's Determination of Phronesis and Political Association.- Ch 7: From Practical Reason to Interaction: The Problem of Freedom in Kant, Fichte, and Schelling.- Ch 8: On Capital Punishment.- Ch 9: The Abolition of Caste, Religious Reform, and Democracy: Ambedkar's Challenge to the Twenty-First Century.- Ch 10: The Refutation of Political Fascism.- Ch 11: Globalization and Averting Nuclear and Climate Change Armageddon.