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Self-Conscious, Thinking Subject

Robert Abele
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      This book argues that the primary function of human thinking in language is to make judgments, which are logical-normative connections of concepts. Robert Abele points out that this presupposes cognitive conditions that cannot be accounted for by empirical-linguistic analyses of language content or social conditions alone. Judgments rather assume both reason and a unified subject, and this requires recognition of a Kantian-type of transcendental dimension to them. Judgments are related to perception in that both are syntheses, defined as the unity of representations according to a rule/form. Perceptual syntheses are simultaneously pre-linguistic and proto-rational, and the understanding (Kant’s Verstand) makes these syntheses conceptually and thus self-consciously explicit.  Abele concludes with a transcendental critique of postmodernism and what its deflationary view of ontological categories—such as the unified and reasoning subject—has done to political thinking. He presents an alternative that calls for a return to normativity and a recognition of reason, objectivity, and the universality of principles.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Abele EAN: 9783030795597 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 465 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer Nature Switzerland AG DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-08-20 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / Logic, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

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      Political science and theory, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophy: logic, Social and political philosophy

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      Robert Abele is Professor of Philosophy at Diablo Valley College, USA. He is the author of A User's Guide to the USA PATRIOT Act (2005); The Anatomy of a Deception: A Logical and Ethical Analysis of the Decision to Invade Iraq (2009); and contributed to the Encyclopedia of Global Justice (2012).  
      This book argues that the primary function of human thinking in language is to make judgments, which are logical-normative connections of concepts. Robert Abele points out that this presupposes cognitive conditions that cannot be accounted for by empirical-linguistic analyses of language content or social conditions alone. Judgments rather assume both reason and a unified subject, and this requires recognition of a Kantian-type of transcendental dimension to them. Judgments are related to perception in that both are syntheses, defined as the unity of representations according to a rule/form. Perceptual syntheses are simultaneously pre-linguistic and proto-rational, and the understanding (Kant’s Verstand) makes these syntheses conceptually and thus self-consciously explicit.  Abele concludes with a transcendental critique of postmodernism and what its deflationary view of ontological categories—such as the unified and reasoning subject—has done to political thinking. He presents an alternative that calls for a return to normativity and a recognition of reason, objectivity, and the universality of principles.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Abele EAN: 9783030795597 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 465 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer Nature Switzerland AG DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-08-20 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / Logic, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

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      Political science and theory, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophy: logic, Social and political philosophy

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      Robert Abele is Professor of Philosophy at Diablo Valley College, USA. He is the author of A User's Guide to the USA PATRIOT Act (2005); The Anatomy of a Deception: A Logical and Ethical Analysis of the Decision to Invade Iraq (2009); and contributed to the Encyclopedia of Global Justice (2012).  

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