Goethe, Kant, and Hegel - Discovering the Mind

This immensely readable and absorbing book - the first of a three-volume series on understanding the human mind - concentrates on three major figures who have changed our image of human beings

List of contents

Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Prologue, 1. What I am concerned with is self-knowledge, meaning knowledge both of our own minds and of the human mind in general. The meaning of mind., 2. Why is it that we have made so little progress in the discovery of the mind? Goethe and Kant., 3. Three aims, I. Goethe and the Discovery of the Mind, II. Influences: Herder, Lessing, Schiller, Fichte, Schopenhauer, III. Kant: The Structure of the Mind, IV. Kant: Autonomy, Style, and Certainty, V. Hegel's Three Conceptions of Phenomenology, Bibliography, Acknowledgments

About the author

Kaufmann, Walter

Summary

This immensely readable and absorbing book - the first of a three-volume series on understanding the human mind - concentrates on three major figures who have changed our image of human beings

Product details

• Authors: Walter Kaufmann
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.10.2017
• EAN: 9781138524477
• ISBN: 978-1-138-52447-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Discovering the Mind Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works