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Popular philosophy

(892 words)

Author(s): Lehmann-Brauns, Sicco
1. General The concern expressed programmatically during the Enlightenment under the heading popular philosophy to make philosophical issues accessible in layman’s terms has a history reaching back to antiquity. Some schools of classical philosophy – Platonism, for instance – made a distinction between esoteric and exoteric teaching. Exoteric teaching had the task of presenting the substance of esoteric teaching – which was accessible only to trained philosophers – in a form that was comprehensible to reade…
Date: 2021-03-15

Prisca philosophia

(872 words)

Author(s): Lehmann-Brauns, Sicco
1. Concept The concept of a perfect, primal wisdom, a prisca philosophia (ancient philosophy) or  prisca sapientia (ancient wisdom), enjoyed by Adam in Paradise and not entirely lost even after the Fall, dominated the conception of history (History, conception of) developed in terms of the teleological Christian narrative of salvation [5. 646–701] (History, theology of).The belief in a prisca philosophia belonged to a tradition dating back to the apologetics of the Church Fathers of late antiquity (e.g. Augustine, De civitate Dei, 18), in which even pagan sources, s…
Date: 2021-03-15

Dialectics

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Author(s): Lehmann-Brauns, Sicco
1. ConceptDialectics (from the Greek dialégesthai, “to converse,” via the substantive  dialektikḗ [téchnē]; Latin [ ars] dialectica) from Aristotle meant the method of rational argument, including merely probably arguments, in which latter point it differed from logic, which required proof. Still, dialectics can be regarded as a form of applied logic for the purposes of argumentation theory. It formed part of the so-called trivium within the medieval university curriculum of the seven artes liberales alongside grammar and rhetoric.Sicco Lehmann-Brauns2. Humani…
Date: 2019-10-14

Cartesianism

(1,718 words)

Author(s): Lehmann-Brauns, Sicco
1. Definition Cartesianism is the term for the philosophical movements of the 17th and 18th centuries that ascribed to the philosophy of René Descartes (Latinized: Cartesius; 1596-1650) and, especially, who developed his method and physics further. Accordingly, Cartesianism is defined by three sets of topics: (1) by adoption of the Cartesian doctrine of method, which by means of methodological doubt explains the self-thinking ego (Lat. cogito) as the starting-point for a philosophy that operates strictly deductively; (2) by a dualism of substances, the “t…
Date: 2019-10-14

Force

(3,056 words)

Author(s): Rammer, Gerhard | Lehmann-Brauns, Sicco
1. Physics 1.1. Concepts Physicists today define a force as a physical value that will change the motion of a body. Originally, among the ideas to become associated with the concept of force was that of muscular tension. The concept had a wide spectrum of meaning in early modern scholarly discourse. There was no clear distinction between force in its essential sense of the stimulus to a movement and force in the wider sense of the stimulus to general changes in an object [1]; [3]; [12]. Krünitz' Ökonomische Encyklopädie, for instance, sees the physical force behind movement as sim…
Date: 2019-10-14

Autonomy

(2,788 words)

Author(s): Lehmann-Brauns, Sicco | Hofer, Sibylle | Graf, Friedrich Wilhelm
The term autonomy (from Greek autonomía, “self-determination, independence”) appeared for the first time in German (as Autonomie) in the context of the confessional and constitutional disputes following the Peace of Augsburg (1555) [3]. Its earliest use in English (with reference to states) dates from the 1620s. It arrived at its various semantic levels in the history of philosophy, law, and religion during the early modern period. As a legal term, it initially meant freedom from interference by the authority of the state, esp…
Date: 2019-10-14

Kantianism

(992 words)

Author(s): Lehmann-Brauns, Sicco
1. ConceptKantianism is the name given to a philosophical tendency of the last two decades of the 18th century that drew on Immanuel Kant’s Kritik der reinen Vernunft ( Critique of Pure Reason, 1781/87) and contributed to the popularization of Kantian philosophy. Discussions of Kantianism may be regarded as the first reflection of the Copernican revolution in philosophy effected in Kant’s  Kritik. This revolution consisted in the assertion that the phenomenal world was dependent on the constitutional powers of the subject. Kant thus abolished subject…
Date: 2019-10-14

Hegelianism

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Author(s): Lehmann-Brauns, Sicco
Hegelianism is a collective term for a great variety of philosophical positions that developed in connection with the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, primarily in the German-speaking world, especially in Prussia in the runup to the March Revolution (Vormärz). In the 1830s, Hegel’s considerable influence continued to be felt through many of his students, who were supported by the academic hiring policy of the Prussian Ministry of Culture under K. vom Stein zum Altenstein. At this tim…
Date: 2019-10-14
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