"The contradiction, that a principle [i.e. the idea that things exist outside of us] which by nature cannot be immediately certain is yet accepted as blindly and groundlessly as one that is so, is incapable of resolution by the transcendental philosopher, save on the presupposition that this principle is not just covertly and as yet ( Read more... )

Well hell, I had no idea how much Dilthey has in common with Schelling.  It's like he's taken some basic concepts and divisions from Schelling, purged them of that early Romantic tinge, and restated them in a way that sounds matter-of-fact and pragmatic, rather than sublime and overwrought ( Read more... )

So probably everyone has tried to imagine what it's like to wake up with amnesia.  I think what I've thought about most has been to imagine what people close to me would look and feel like, concretely, if I had no sense of knowing who they are, while still knowing rationally that they are related to me.  But try thinking not of what the world would ( Read more... )

Oh. My. God.
www.marxists.org/audiobooks/archive/marx-engels/capital-vol1/index.htm

Why can't phenomenologists be this dedicated?  Books are heavy!

Edmund: OMG, you are teaching a whole course on my first real philosophy book?  Wow, like almost no one has even heard of it.

Wilhelm: Indeed, I believe it is the most important work published in a hundred years.  It's brilliant, groundbreaking - also you are probably the only person in Germany who gets what I am on about when I say we have to ( Read more... )