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Absolute knowledge and groundless certainty by Hegel and Wittgenstein.
Berg, Alexander ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (advisor) ; Rentsch, Thomas (referee) ; Novotný, Karel (referee)
A l e x a n d e r B e r g - Z u s a m m e n f a s s u n g - D i s s e r t a t i o n 2 0 1 7 Absolutes Wissen und Grundlose Gewissheit bei Hegel und Wittgenstein "Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different." (Wittgenstein im Phoenix-Park, Dublin 1948) Abstract Der Wert dieser Untersuchung besteht darin, zum einen anhand des vielfältigen z. T. erst neu zugänglichen Materials Wittgensteins Phoenix-Park- Satz besser verstehen zu können und damit insgesamt eine tiefere Einsicht in den Zusammenhang des Wittgenstein'schen Denkens mit der Philosophie Hegels zu ermöglichen. Weiter stehen Wittgensteins Überlegungen zu Hegel aber auch im Kontext der Frage nach der Stellung seiner eigenen lebenslangen philosophischen Anstrengungen zu denjenigen der großen Denker der Philosophiegeschichte überhaupt. Die verschiedenen konkret historischen und ideengeschichtlichen Verbindungen, so wie sie in dieser Untersuchung von Wittgenstein's Denken über die philosophische Scholastik im Mittelalter bis zum antiken Ursprung der philosophischen Tradition zurückverfolgt werden konnten, helfen dabei, einer Antwort auf diese Frage Wittgensteins etwas näher zu kommen.
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The Concept of "Autonomy of Reason" in the Philosophy of the Enlightenment by Ernst Cassirer: A Review of a Classical Work in the Light of the New Literature.
Arriola, Jonathan ; Zapero, David (advisor) ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (referee)
In this Master's thesis, I propose to first investigate the existence of this autonomy of reason, which Cassirer postulates as a differentia specifica of enlightenment against other epochs, and which articulates this entire flow. Secondly, the critique of Cassirer's work and its truth content will be examined more closely. In order to make this project feasible, I will focus, among others, on Jonathan Israel's depiction of Enlightenment, and his idea, according to which two irreconcilable explanations have been given, is a concept which Cassirer himself was altogether alien to. Cassirer, Enlightenment, Reason, Autonomy, Jonathan Israel.
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Political Worlds. A Comparison Between Alain Badiou and Klaus Held
Palacios Bustamante, Oscar ; Gabriel, Markus (advisor) ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (referee)
The main thesis of this work is that Alain Badiou as well as Klaus Held think of the political as the connection of early separated worlds. This thesis is sustained through a comparison between Held's phenomenology of political world and Badiou's mathematical onto-logy. Crucial in this comparison is the difference between the points of departure of these investigations, where the limits and the present of phenomenology and "realist" Ontologies can be a subject of reflection. Key words: Alain Badiou, Klaus Held, political phenomenology, mathematical Ontology, event, subjectivity
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The Principle of Sufficient Reason in Kant and Meillassoux: On the Reason and Unreason of Post-metaphysical Thought
Sistiaga, Sergey ; Novák, Aleš (advisor) ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (referee) ; Theis, Robert (referee)
The Principle of Sufficient Reason in Kant and Meillassoux: On the Reason and Unreason of Post-metaphysical Thought. The aim of this thesis is to probe the alleged grounds of post-metaphysical thought in order to unearth its foundations. This genetic-systematic inquiry thus not only aims to scrutinize possible interpretations of the judgment the tribunal of reason is said to have passed on itself qua reason, but, more importantly, to revise the very judgment itself and to question the legitimacy of the tribunal. Apart from the fact that self-administered justice rarely results in convictions, the process seems ill-conceived from the start. The thesis sets in with an analysis of Quentin Meillassoux's recent invigorating and highly original re- discovery of post-metaphysical thought's unreason and a close reading of Kant's relevant pre- critical and critical works: while judgment was indeed passed in the name of "pure reason", it was not passed on reason itself but merely on its "logical" use. Only reason's usus logicus, not its usus realis were indicted by reason. In other words, the judgment has been misunderstood. The reason for this misunderstanding is located in Kant's philosophical presuppositions, which thus emerge as the very unreason of post-metaphysical thought. Since such unreason cannot...
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The Sublime Revisited: The Kantian Sublime in the Historical Context
Narimani Ghahnavieh, Golnar ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (advisor) ; Römer, Inga (referee)
it focuses on a close reading of Kant's pre nt's pre chronological approach towards Kant's predecessors, or treats Kantian sublime as the major focal historical context, in order to both find out Kant's specific contributions to the discourse of question addressed by this research is the influence and impact of Kant's moral theory for and on his aesthetics. The sublime is a pivotal element of Kantian aesthetics which reveals how Kant's theorists to one with a priori grounds, based on Kant's pure practical reason; moreover an analysis , but as independently crucial to Kant's philosphy. Kant's moral theory's development. Next, we have explored
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Adorno's Concept of Utopia
Erfanmanesh, Safoura ; Rometsch, Jens (advisor) ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (referee)
This master's thesis examines Adorno's concept of Utopia. Throughout this work I argue that Adorno is a utopian thinker and his conception of Utopia is a constellation or montage of negative, messianic-materialistic, formal, and individualistic definitions of Utopia. I elucidate my argument by reconstructing Adorno's conceptual constellation of Utopia in different chapters and sections of this work in the form of an interpretive constellation. In the first chapter, I explain how Utopia got lost, by investigating the causes of the failure of Enlightenment's utopian goals such as rationality, freedom, progress, and establishment of the whole society as humanity. This failure necessitates a radical reconsideration of all fundamental principles of thought and society. In chapter two I analyze Adorno's conception of negative Utopia as the determinate negation of Dystopia. His negative dialectics is the recognition of what is non-identical to thought's concepts and categories. The non-identical is the condition of the possibility of Utopia, because it indicates that there is something 'more' than what our conceptual system of knowledge can comprehend, this 'more' is the utopian. I continue this chapter by discussing Adorno's inverse theology as messianic materialism which maintains that there is no transcendent...
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The aesthetical, educational and political idea of being humane. Philosophical investigations in the field of "applied theatre" following Maurice Merleau-Ponty's gestalttheoretical phenomenology
Fopp, David ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (advisor) ; Hilmer, Brigitte (referee) ; Koch, Gerd (referee)
(English) David Fopp: The aesthetical, educational and political idea of being humane. Philosophical investigations in the field of "applied theatre" following Maurice Merleau-Ponty's gestalttheoretical phenomenology This dissertation analyses the most important forms of drama/acting-exercises in the field of "applied theatre" (acting- schools, drama education and community theatre) from the perspective of establishing democratic relations and spaces. What happens in these imaginative interactions and what is needed in their aesthetical and pedagogical framework so that a special type of playful meeting occurs leading to a "connectedness" in the relation to others and oneself? Three phenomena (and their interdependence) are central to this project: the already mentioned capacity of being more or less in contact, connected (or alienated) to ourselves and others; the aesthetical and educational phenomenon of a creative space of trust and acceptance; and the idea of being "humane" - for example describing the atmosphere and characters of many works of the classical (childrens) literature and film: such as Lindgren or Dickens, but even of works of art such as Chaplins films. This idea is explored by comparing it to three concepts of being "human": an anthropological, a moral and an ethical. The...
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Computational Worlds: An Information Ontology
Mullins, Ryan David ; Gabriel, Markus (advisor) ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (referee)
Ryan D. Mullins Computational Worlds: An Information Ontology Abstract of the Master-Thesis In this thesis, 'the world', that unified, all-encompassing domain about which we speak and make apparent discoveries every day will be declared another mythology. Instead, reality will look radically different. Reality comprises distortive, aesthetic simulations. The reality that will emerge will be a computational reality, a metaphysical pluralism in which actuality and possibility vie and vex, ultimately 'collapsing' into unified information states. This is a philosophy of the transfinite; more negatively, an anti-Kantian, anti-monistic philosophy. The author seeks nothing less than a new prism through which to view traditional philosophical problems and, in the best-case scenario, create possible solutions.
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Indirect Approach of Phenomenological Interpretation. Interpretation of Historical Philosophy in the Phenomenology
Kononetc, Daria ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (advisor) ; Chernavin, Georgy (referee)
This work questions the concept of method of phenomenological Interpretation. In the present work we consider phenomenological interpretation as an essential part of phenomenology, and more precise as a detour approach that illuminates passive-governing domain which itself is a blind spot that hasn't been grasped by a reflective thinking. According to such formulation of a problem, here we study conditions of the possibility of a realization of phenomenological approach to philosophical texts treatment. Method of phenomenological interpretation is studied by means of explanation of the role, aiming and results of interpretations made by M. Heidegger, E. Husserl and E. Fink. Keywords: Phenomenology, E. Husserl, M. Heidegger, E. Fink, phenomenological interpretation, subjectivity, Kant-Book, The Crisis of the European Sciences, The Epilegomena to critic of the pure reason, method, subjectivity, historicity, text, limit.
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