Tag: Philosophy Writings
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How does the argument from geometry work?
Kant’s argument from geometry is situated in the Transcendental Aesthetic under the Transcendental Exposition of the Concept of Space. Kant, having established that our concept of space is a pure intuition in the Metaphysical Exposition of the Concept of Space, aims to answer the question, how is our synthetic…
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Humanism with the Other -An Inquiry into Sartre and Levinas’ Humanism
Introduction Bombing, shooting, ISIS’s attacks in Paris shocked the world. The violence humans do to each other makes one wonder from what ideology do such extreme actions derive their energy. It is not hard to remember, in the turbulent 1900s, similar violence was observed in Nazi’s Holocaust, World…
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The Nothingness of Freedom
“Everything that I have tried to write or do in my life was meant to stress the importance of freedom.” Sartre, 1975 Following the tradition of 20th century Continental philosophy, Sartre characterizes human beings with a fundamental lack. As he indicates, “human reality… exists first as lack and in immediate,…
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The Circularity within the Linearity of Time - The Possibility in the Temporal Impossibility of Martin Heidegger
05.11.15 Martin Heidegger is a revolutionary philosopher who coins the non-systematic existential philosophy with a metaphysical framework. His phenomenological and hermeneutic methods give birth to a new interpretation of humans’ existence and essence that is structured and rational. As the progression of his works indicates, the early Heidegger…