The Essence of Human Freedom
An Introduction to Philosophy
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 2005
240 pages
978-1-4411-9981-2 (ISBN)
Description
The Essence of Human Freedom is a fundamental
text for understanding Heidegger's view of Greek
philosophy and its relationship to modern
philosophy. These previously untranslated lectures
were delivered by Heidegger at the University of
Freiburg in the summer of 1930.
text for understanding Heidegger's view of Greek
philosophy and its relationship to modern
philosophy. These previously untranslated lectures
were delivered by Heidegger at the University of
Freiburg in the summer of 1930.
Reviews / Votes
"It is only a small exaggeration to say that each of Martin Heidegger's works seems to be the key to his thought...every book is bracing and magnetic...The effect is similar to what we see in the best political philosophy. Being stirred to think is as important as the question being thought about. Heidegger not only encourages thought, he also instructs us in how to begin thinking...Heidegger at his best calls forth what once was called courage of the intellect. Heidegger sees his characteristic path in The Essence of Human Freedom and The Essence of Truth as grounded in and circling back to history...The main things to be learned from these books concern what it means to confront essential questions at the level of Heidegger, Kant, Plato, and Aristotle. For the student, to be serious involves just such a confrontation." -- Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2005More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-9981-2 (9781441199812)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is regarded as one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Translator's Foreword
- PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS
- 1. The Apparent Contradiction between the 'Particular' Question Concerning the Essence of Human Freedom and the 'General' Task of an Introduction to Philosophy
- a) The 'Particularity' of the Topic and the 'Generality' of an Introduction to Philosophy
- b) Broadening the Question Concerning the Essence of Human Freedom towards the Totality of Beings (World and God) in the Preliminary Discussion of 'Negative' Freedom. Specific Character of Philosophical as Distinct from Scientific Questioning
- c) Deeper Interpretation of 'Negative Freedom' as Freedom-from . . . in Terms of the Essence of Its Relational Character. Beings in the Whole Necessarily Included in the Question Concerning Human Freedom
- d) Philosophy as Revealing the Whole by Means of Properly Conceived Particular Problems
- PART ONE: POSITIVE DEFINITION OF PHILOSOPHY FROM THE CONTENT OF THE PROBLEM OF FREEDOM
- THE PROBLEM OF HUMAN FREEDOM AND THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION OF PHILOSOPHY
- CHAPTER ONE: 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 TWO: The Leading Question of Philosophy and Its Questionability. Discussion of the Leading Question from Its Own Possibilities and Presuppositions
- 6. Leading Question of Philosophy (omitted) as the Question Concerning the Being of Beings
- 7. Preconceptual Understanding of Being and Greek Philosophy's Basic Word for Being: (omitted)
- 8. Demonstration of the Hidden Fundamental Meaning of (omitted) (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 (omitted) as (omitted) (Aristotle, Metaphysics Ø 10)
- 10. The Actuality of Spirit in Hegel as Absolute Presence
- CHAPTER THREE: 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 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 TWO: CAUSALITY AND FREEDOM
- TRANSCENDENTAL AND PRACTICAL FREEDOM IN KANT
- CHAPTER ONE: 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 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 TWO: 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
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