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Thoughts on Intuition: Flowing as Starting Point of Philosophy
Pilz, Sebastian ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (advisor) ; Klass, Tobias Nikolaus (referee)
Philosophy always had the stigma to be distance from life. In this thesis, "Thoughts on Intuition: Flowing as starting point of philosophy", the attempt will be performed to talk about what seems to be very vague in the first consideration but will be transformed after an investigation into en 'event' and methodological necessity, if the philosophy should be dressed in the wrinkled robe of life: the intuition. It leads to the inner core of being as a method of cognition, which could not be reached by terms in an analysis mat-ter. Terms are not representing being in its full manner and themselves are even less living than they should be to handle with life. Terms are fixed constructs, in which hu-mans translate the data of the senses and which will be transformed into something that has some utility for human means. We emphasis in this thesis to put philosophy back at the side of life and to get insights which has ever been made by art: intuitive cognitions. For sure there will be a critical opposition to the results, but by showing which perfor-mance and capacity intuition has, we'll try to refuse these voices. It is most important for philosophy itself being alive. We will achieve this aim, if we open it for methods which are coming closer to life than dead building consisting of terms, which are...
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Intercultural dialogues and the creativity of knowledge - A study on Daya Krishna
Coquereau-Saouma, Elise Isadora Marie Colette ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (advisor) ; Bhushan, Nalini (referee) ; Raghuramaraju, A. (referee)
This work discusses the contribution of the philosopher Daya Krishna (1924-2007) to the realm of intercultural dialogues. A leading figure of academic Indian philosophy, Daya Krishna left an immense and eclectic, yet mainly unexplored, corpus. Firstly, I offer one approach to his diverse philosophy by focusing on his philosophical project as a whole. His project attempts to unveil the presuppositions of thinking, which can only be effectuated in dialoguing across philosophical traditions founded on different presuppositions. Applying his project to the realm of intercultural dialogues, I begin by questioning the limits encountered by recent intercultural theories aiming at deconstructing Eurocentrism and establishing a global philosophical dialogue while responding to their postmodern European heritages. As a counterpoint, I introduce the challenges of Anglophone Indian philosophers in India, facing an uprooting from their own traditions. They feel this uprooting as cultural subjection, deprived of their own philosophical past. Within this context, Daya Krishna connected isolated communities of thinkers by organizing multilingual dialogues (called 'saṃvāda') between traditional paṇḍits, ulama and Anglophone philosophers. I reconstruct some of these experiments, thereby emphasizing methodological...
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Unreality and Consciousness of Image: the Emergence of a New Phenomenological Method in Eugen Fink's Dissertation
Coli, Anna Luiza ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (advisor) ; Novotný, Karel (referee)
This master thesis has as main objective the exposure of the phenomenological method Eugen Fink introduces in his dissertation "Vergegenwartigung und Bild" from 1929, which will form the basis of the writings through which the young Fink was first known in the years of assistance to Husserl, namely, the VI. Cartesianische Meditation and the renowned article in the Kantstudien, "Die phanomenologische Philosophie Edmund Husserls in der gegenwartigen Kritik". A careful analysis shows that these works have had an important role in further development of phenomenology - what is particularly observed in the case of French phenomenology - but even a notable influence on Husserl's later work, as we can see in the texts comprised by the later text known as The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. Both texts, however, are constituted on the basis Fink had already exposed in that dissertation, with which he received his doctor degree under the direction of Husserl and presupposes it insofar as this text presents for the first time the method of phenomenological inquiry undertaken by Fink and at the same time, the essential point of his divergence from Husserl's method for the phenomenology. The core of this new method lies in the revision of the phenomenological reduction's concept,...
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What Means Ontography? The Modelling and Experience of Forms of Thinking and Reality Using the Example of the Philosophy of Heinrich Rombach
Stadler, Michael ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (advisor) ; Stenger, Georg (referee)
The first chapter develops, on the basis of former characterizations of the concept 'ontography' within the history of philosophy, an autonomous definition of ontography. The second chapter applies this concept - ontography - to various theories that are possibly compatible with this definition. The proffered definition will prove itself insufficient, however, and it will be subsequently extended to a meta-ontology in the third chapter by means of theories about models, schemata and embodiment. The extended definition sets up a possible implementation in the philosophy of Heinrich Rombach. Accordingly, the fourth chapter presents an analysis and interpretation of the philosophy of Rombach in the framework of the extended definition of ontography. The fifth and final chapter critically examines once again the methodology and the consequences of this thesis, as well as examines determinations of the concept of 'ontography', mainly in relation to ontology. Keywords: Aesthetics, Embodiment, Experience, Forms of Thinking, Graphics, Heinrich Rombach, Image Schema, Mediated Immediateness, Meta-Ontology, Model, Model Theory, Ontography, Ontology, Ontological Experience, Semantics, Visual Models.
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Paul Yorck von Wartenburg's conception of Geschichtlichkeit
De Melo Coan, Isadora Cristina ; Hartung, Gerald (advisor) ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (referee)
Paul Yorck von Wartenburgs Auffassung von Geschichtlichkeit Abstract The aim of this research is to examine the conception of historicity [Geschichtlichkeit] of the count Paul Yorck von Wartenburg - who is perhaps better known for his friendship with Wilhelm Dilthey. The recuperation and investigation of Yorck's arguments takes place in the context of his rejection of metaphysical and positivist models as well as from his constant intellectual exchange with Dilthey. The focus of the present analysis is Yorck's concept of person, strongly influenced by Christian doctrine, as well as his psychology of history: here we will identify how the author understands historical reality and the dependency between attitudes of consciousness [Bewusstseinsstellungen] and the context of life. Adjacent concepts ofYorck's conception of historicity, such as syndesmos (historical connection between people), "aliveness" or life [Lebendigkeit], totality [Totalität] and the human being in its entirety [Ganzer Mensch], are also examined in order to better understand Yorck's notion of historicity and its divergences to Dilthey's approach to the humanities. These observations allow us to identify some of the ways in which the relation between philosophy and history has been thought. Keywords: Paul Yorck von Wartenburg; Historicity...
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"The wealth of nothingness" - On the (im)possibility of metaphysics in Adorno and Beckett
Schenk, Jan David ; Hartung, Gerald (advisor) ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (referee)
English abstract: "The wealth of nothingness - On the (im)possibility of metaphysics in Adorno and Beckett": The subject of this paper is Theodor W. Adorno's reception of Samuel Beckett and its embedding in his philosophy. Based on an interpretation of Adorno's treatment of the problem of temporality, it is shown that for Adorno Beckett's work both marks the end of time in a bad infinity and at the same time prepares the turn into a fulfilled time. As the opening of a quasi- utopian temporality, it is argued that the engagement with Beckett represents for Adorno as much as the rescue of the possibility of metaphysics and critical theory through its impossibility, moving in the semantics of gift, promise, and gratitude. Keywords: dialectics, temporality, metaphysics, gift, utopia
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"The search for female identity". A philosophical and literary study on the representation of female self-identification using the example of occidental and post-soviet literature
Chernova, Iana ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (advisor) ; Nielsen, Cathrin (referee)
This work has been given the title "The Search for Female Identity" because its core question is: what constitutes female self-identification? This search is carried out by searching literary traces, since self-identification can be deconstructed by analyzing the texts. Texts by an Austrian and a Soviet-Russian writer were chosen as the basis for this deconstruction. In a comparison of their two writings, the difference between the two socio-political systems in terms of their possible influence on self-identification could also be crystallized. The theories used (mainly poststructuralist) together with the interpretations help to extract the pre-discursive nature of the texts and to decipher the image of femininity. The analysis carried out showed that in both societies this picture is full of myths, however, they were developed and implemented differently. In the course of this development the individualistic Western culture encounters the limits of its individuality, which also affects women and influences their unity in themselves. Meanwhile, the post-Soviet society striving for all-round collectivism fails to control the construction of identity, since it does not offer enough playground for self-determination and overwhelms especially women with the imposed standards. Key words: female...
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Prolegomena to the notion of self-realization: Updating the idea of the abolition of labor following Hegelian and Marxian philosophy
Herden, Paul ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (advisor) ; Ronge, Bastian (referee)
This thesis forms, in the first instance, a critical examination of labor in relation to the notion of self-realization following Hegelian and Marxian philosophy and their theories of action. In the second instance, it is a preliminary study of the concept of fomo (fear of missing out), which will be explored in more detail in the PhD based on the MA. In the first section, a critique of Andreas Reckwitz's and Hartmut Rosa's notions of self-realization is used to present the common view and contemporary engagements with said notion as relevant but insufficient. Both authors act as a proxy for a deficiency that turns out to be an all too great distance from metaphysical and historical-materialist positions and considerations regarding such notion as that of self-realization. Thus, in the main part, not only an attempt is made, by means of a renaissance of Hegelian and Marxian reflections on the concept of self-realization, to plausibilize and remedy this deficiency; moreover, by virtue of a detailed exegesis of their theories of action and examination of their categories, it is pointed out, above all, that Hegelian and Marxian philosophy intends the complete abolition of self-preservation (d. i. alienated and natural labor) and elevation into self-realization, even if both thinkers use the...
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The phenomenality of the phenomenon of absolute Idem in Zen, citing the Shóbógenzó of Dogen Zenji - A work in the form of a translation of the state of emptiness or enlightenment in the perspective of the radical life phenomenology of Michel Henry
Wilmes, Ellen Ursula ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (advisor) ; Seyler, Frédéric (referee) ; Vogd, Werner (referee) ; Günther, Hans Christian (referee)
Ellen Wilmes, Dissertation 2017, Prof. Dr. Sepp, Prof. Dr.Vogd English version The present research project defines an expedition in a world investigating under a turned presupposition. This is the translation of a dualistic presupposition of world to a non-dualistic presupposition of world. The phenomenon of "absolute Idem", well-known as Satori or enlightenment in Zen Buddhism is the aim of this investigation. With the perspective of radical phenomenology of life of Michel Henry and Shobogenzo as basic work of Dogen Zenji, Japanese master of Zen characteristics of absolute Idem are compiled. These attributes (body, mind, thinking, doing, duality, non-duality, phenomenality of contemporaneity, phenomenon of exclusivity, causality and time, ethic) are investigated. With the turned presupposition, the expedition is a kind of "new formatting" of world. In this way, following topics unfold: 1. World is setting in non-duality under a turned presupposition. 2. Consequences of investigation in all areas of science succeed, because different question are possible. 3. Problems of the world and humanity (war, peace, global environment, energy) can find new ways of questions and answers. 4. The individual isn't simple only an individual in design of subject under, near and with an object, but the individual is...
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Phenomenology of Communication
Kaiser, Benjamin ; Sepp, Hans Rainer (advisor) ; Joisten, Karen (referee) ; Schmiedl-Neuburg, Hilmar (referee)
Doctoral thesis by Benjamin Kaiser (FHS UK): Title in English: Relating and unrelating. A phenomenology of impartation. Abstract (English) Using a phenomenological analysis of the living body, this thesis investigates the dynamics of relating and unrelating in the context of philosophical anthropology. The first main chapter on "Mediation and Deprivation" argues that, in the context of early 20th century, certain philosophical paradigms arose which made the medium an absolute concept: some examples are those of environment; milieu and media theory. On the other hand, Husserl developed the phenomenological Epoché; and Plessner's and Scheler's emphasised the world/environment- difference as a negative response towards these paradigmatic accounts on mediation. An excursus further investigates the "sceptical beginnings of phenomenology" by making a comparison between the Epoché of the ancient Greek scepticism in the works of Sextus Empiricus and the phenomenological Epoché of Husserl. It shows that already in its earliest forms in ancient philosophy the Epoché was understood as related to our bodily existence. The second main chapter develops a "Phenomenology of Boundary Embodiment [Grenzleiblichkeit]". Following Hans Rainer Sepp's anthropology of the living body, this chapter analyses certain phenomena in...
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