Tag: Philosophy
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Hume And The Subject Of Free Will
Hume And The Subject Of Free Will David Hume, one of the foremost philosophers of the 18th century, was a skeptic and empiricist whose outlook on free will is based heavily in the sciences and what is known. Hume, being a compatibilist, deals mainly with the concept of reconciling the freedom and emotional nature of […]
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Marcuse / Repressive Tolerance
Marcuse / Repressive Tolerance Repressive Tolerance is a term coined by Herbert Marcuse in a 1965 essay by the same title. Marcuse believed that the media wrongly pays as much attention to non-news as to real news. This kind of tolerance for irrelevant news was considered repressive by Marcuse, because it diminishes the relative importance […]
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Heidegger’s Interpretation of Kant: Categories, Imagination, and Temporality, Martin Weatherston
In Heidegger’s Interpretation of Kant, Martin Weatherston closely and critically examines Heidegger’s Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason–recently translated from vol. 25 of Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe–in order to correct the somewhat one-sided impression we may get from Heidegger’s notoriously tendentious reading of Kant in Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (also known as “the Kantbuch”). Weatherston’s interesting study is in […]
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