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essay-related problems. The intention is to explain and illustrate a handful of recommendations that address some of the most common mistakes students make when writing philosophical essays. There are numerous resources available to you if you are concerned about your essay-writing skills, beginning with your supervisors.
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the Philosophy Paper The Challenges of Philosophical Writing The aim of the assignments in your philosophy classes is to get you doing philosophy. But what is philosophy, and how is it to be done? The answer is complicated. Philosophers are often motivated by one or more of what we might call the “Big Questions,” such as: How should we live?
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- Introduction: From Inner Experience to the Self-Formation of Psychological Persons
- Inner Sense as the Faculty for Inner Receptivity
- Temporal Consciousness and Inner Perception
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- Consciousness of Oneself as Object
- The Guiding Thread of Inner Experience
- The Demands of Theoretical Reason: Self-Knowledge and Systematicity
- 7.4. A Normative Concept of A Person
- Preface
- 0.1. Two Theses
- 0.2. The Puzzle of Self-Reference: Parity or Disparity?
- 0.4. The Novel View of the Book: Self-Formation under the Idea of the Soul
Two Theses The Puzzle of Self-Reference: Parity or Disparity? The Argument of the Book: Varieties of Objects and Varieties of Self-Consciousness The Novel View of the Book: Self-Formation under the Idea of the Soul Outline of the Chapters Part I: The Appearing Self
Introduction Kant’s Basic Model of Representation Inner Sense in Historical Context Kant’s Transcendental Account of Inner Sense in the Critique of Pure Reason Inner Receptivity in Anthropology and Critique of the Power of Judgment
Introduction Perception and Synthesis The Interactive Model of Perception Transcendental Self-Affection and the Temporal Conditions of Perception Empirical Self-Affection and Inner Perception Part II: Self-Consciousness and the “I” of the Understanding
Transcendental Apperception as Form of Reflexive Consciousness The Expression “I think” and Self-Reference Conclusion
Introduction The Logical “I” and the Psychological “I” The Logical “I” as an Object of Thought The Psychological “I” as an Object of Inner Experience Part III: The Human Person and the Demands of Reason
Introduction Reason and Human Experience The Idea of the Soul in the Transcendental Dialectic The Noumenal and the Fictional View of the Soul Ideas of Reason and Contexts of Intelligibility The Regulative Principles of Inner Experience Conclusion
Introduction From Inner Experience to Empirical Self-Knowledge The Conceptualization of Psychological Phenomena Empirical Self-Knowledge and the Possibility of Error
Epilogue: Individuality and Wholeness Bibliography Index
Modern life is full of change and transition. We constantly undergo new experiences or even actively seek them, and with those new experiences we ourselves change. All these changes become manifest in some way or other in our conscious mental life, which consists, most basically, of a constant stream of passing thoughts, perceptions, desires, joys,...
As the preeminent Enlightenment philosopher, Immanuel Kant is famous for emphasizing that each and every one of us is called to “make use of one’s own understanding without direction from another” (Enlightenment, 8:35). We are all called to make up our own minds, independently from the external constraints imposed on us by others. In the face of th...
Empirical self-knowledge raises an intricate puzzle – a puzzle that is indeed a problem for any philosophical or scientific theory addressing it. On the one hand, self-knowledge is reflexive in that it points back to the subject who has the experience. On the other hand, self-knowledge refers to a particular individual, namely oneself, with specifi...
As a solution to the puzzle of self-reference, this book argues that in inner experience we cognize ourselves not as mere objects of experience, since we are not given to ourselves as objects in the first place. Rather, our inner experience is fundamentally shaped by our nature as human subjects who – endowed with mental faculties and the ability f...
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The specific instructions for paper format, required library research, and appropriate sources and citation format. The audience to whom you are writing. Should you write the paper so that the topic is accessible to an intelligent adult who has no formal training in philosophy? or for your classmates? or is the audience your professor?
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May 23, 2020 · With the aim of addressing the three fundamental philosophical questions—ontological, epistemological, and conceptual—arising owing to the Trans phenomenon, the Self views of Descartes, Hume, Kant, and Freud are reviewed.
Kant does not just stress the unity of apperception or self-consciousness, but the “transcendental unity of apperception” (e.g., A108, A116, B132). “Transcendental” is a complex concept for Kant, but two meanings are especially relevant for the unity of self-consciousness.
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Dictionary runs, ‘Self: a person’s essential being that distinguishes the person from others, especially considered as the object of introspection or reflexive action; a person’s particular nature.’
