Philosophy
Subject: Between Transcendental Objectivism and Transcendental Subjectivism - Being, Principle, System, Method and Cultural Consciousness in the School of Marburg
Supervisor: Prof. Elhanan Yakira and Dr. Tatiana Karachentseva
Abstract: A philosophical-systematical description of the Marburg School and its main three philosophers: Hermann Cohen, Paul Natorp and Ernst Cassirer.
Objectives:
- To expose the inner philosophical way of reasoning of the Marburg neokantian systems. That in order to : (a) achieve a better articulation of some key concepts of these systems which are presently still ambiguous, (b) offer new answers to some old questions, (c) situate better the school’s philosophical direction within the history of philosophy in the beginning of the 20th century.
- To give a clearer answer to the question what is ‘Kantiansm’ and ‘Neo-Kantianism’ according to school and to emphasise and examine their concept of kantianism as a clearly defined philosophical methodology.
- To show the complexity and problematicalness in understanding the relation between ‘subjectivity’ and ‘objectivity’ in their philosophy, and to present this as a key to articulate deep differences between the three thinkers - a difference which is deeper than what is usually attributed to them.
To reveal the above mentioned inner differences under the following categories: as differences (a) in their ontological premises and ontolgical commitment [‘Being’], (b) in defining the basic principle of objectification and scientificity [‘Prinicple’], (c) in defining what gives a unity to all directions of objectification [‘System’], (d) in defining the objective “material” from which the ways of objectification are to be extracted and how should they be extracted [‘Method’] (e) the meaning of ‘Subject’ when it becomes a distinct object of their systematical inquiry
Presidential Stipend 2012/13