Abstraction: Death by a Thousand Cuts
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Data de Publicação: | 2016 |
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Resumo: | In the Lectures on the Method of Academic Study in 1802, F.W.J. Schelling warned his listeners against the annihilation of nature. The annihilation he had in mind was not ecological in the usual sense of the word, but an annihilation caused by a certain way of looking at nature – a philosophical annihilation. The issue Schelling had in mind was that of understanding nature as mechanical, or as merely a domain of things, and of understanding humans as somehow more than natural. This paper is set to describe and argue for a Schellingian alternative to the “annihilation” of nature, to demonstrate why, on such an understanding of nature, the only thing which could undermine it is abstraction and to see how a philosophy should approach abstract thinking in order to deal with this apparent problem. For that, diff erent ways to apply the “knife” of abstraction will be then discussed – some murderous, some surgical. |
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Abstraction: Death by a Thousand CutsSchelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph, 1775-1854 - Crítica e interpretaçãoNaturphilosophieAbstractionPotencyProductivityIn the Lectures on the Method of Academic Study in 1802, F.W.J. Schelling warned his listeners against the annihilation of nature. The annihilation he had in mind was not ecological in the usual sense of the word, but an annihilation caused by a certain way of looking at nature – a philosophical annihilation. The issue Schelling had in mind was that of understanding nature as mechanical, or as merely a domain of things, and of understanding humans as somehow more than natural. This paper is set to describe and argue for a Schellingian alternative to the “annihilation” of nature, to demonstrate why, on such an understanding of nature, the only thing which could undermine it is abstraction and to see how a philosophy should approach abstract thinking in order to deal with this apparent problem. For that, diff erent ways to apply the “knife” of abstraction will be then discussed – some murderous, some surgical.Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, Centro de Filosofia / Departamento de Filosofia da Universidade de LisboaRepositório da Universidade de LisboaKhamis, Diana2017-06-07T10:39:13Z2016-042016-04-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/28015eng0872-4784info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-08T16:19:12Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/28015Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:44:13.515322Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph, 1775-1854 - Crítica e interpretação Naturphilosophie Abstraction Potency Productivity |
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Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph, 1775-1854 - Crítica e interpretação Naturphilosophie Abstraction Potency Productivity |
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In the Lectures on the Method of Academic Study in 1802, F.W.J. Schelling warned his listeners against the annihilation of nature. The annihilation he had in mind was not ecological in the usual sense of the word, but an annihilation caused by a certain way of looking at nature – a philosophical annihilation. The issue Schelling had in mind was that of understanding nature as mechanical, or as merely a domain of things, and of understanding humans as somehow more than natural. This paper is set to describe and argue for a Schellingian alternative to the “annihilation” of nature, to demonstrate why, on such an understanding of nature, the only thing which could undermine it is abstraction and to see how a philosophy should approach abstract thinking in order to deal with this apparent problem. For that, diff erent ways to apply the “knife” of abstraction will be then discussed – some murderous, some surgical. |
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