This much-needed book examines one of the great lacunae of contemporary philosophical discussion - idealism. Addressing the widespread confusion about the meaning and use of the term, Tom Rockmore surveys and classifies some of its major forms. He argues that Kant provides the essential link between three main types of idealism associated with Plato, the new way of ideas, and G...
This much-needed book examines one of the great lacunae of contemporary philosophical discussion - idealism. Addressing the widespread confusion about the meaning and use of the term, Tom Rockmore surveys and classifies some of its major forms. He argues that Kant provides the essential link between three main types of idealism associated with Plato, the new way of ideas, and German idealism. The author also makes a case for the contemporary relevance of at least one strand in the tangled idealist web, a strand most clearly identified with Kant. In terms of the philosophical tradition, Rockmore contends, constructivism offers a lively, interesting, and important approach to knowledge after the decline of metaphysical realism.
For Hegel, speculative philosophy is essentially the science of the absolute. Philosophical science, which differs from other sciences in presupposing nothing, is intrinsicallycircular. 76 Philosophy thinks the identity of identity and difference, which Hegel depicts, not as immediately given, but as the result of thinking through conscious experience in a series of stages culminating in absolute knowing (absolutes Wissen), or in a word in conceptual analysis of what we mean by ‘‘knowing’’ in a philosophical sense, as distinguished from absolute knowledge. Unlike the critical philosophy, and unlike its rationalist and empiricist predecessors, philosophical reflection, in which speculation takes itself as its object, has nothing to do with making indefeasible cognitive claims. It rather has... (查看原文)
There is a further distinction between the cognitive object as it appears in consciousness and as it can be supposed to be outside consciousness, in independence of our awareness of it. Hegel calls the former knowing and the latter truth. (查看原文)
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上海译文出版社2011版
0 有用 宇凡 2022-01-20 19:53:39
对照中文版读了。徐向东在很多中文英文表达的语言习惯转化上，做得非常棒。
0 有用 波士顿驴 2018-11-26 23:49:30
感觉就是Beiser那本书第一部分某几节的扩写，倒是给了我一点兴趣去看柏拉图和笛卡尔
0 有用 法妹儿 2016-08-21 21:39:37
区分三种观念论，以康德为中心讨论建构主义与表象主义的区别，隐含着Rockmore提出不同于Guyer, Allison第三种有关康德以及德国观念论整体的解读。全书侧重于康德哥白尼革命，康德对于柏克莱批判的分析，与“建构主义”一书由重复，但拓展之处更为明显，哲学史进路也极为明晰。
0 有用 traum 2016-04-20 10:10:22
美国做大陆哲学的风格就是不追求大而全，把一个点写透，把这个点的哲学史纹理梳理清楚就行了，这点上，我非常喜欢老tom的风格，观点非常明确。