Research Catalog

Title

The metamorphosis of the given : toward an ecology of consciousness / Friedemann Schwarzkopf.

Author

Schwarzkopf, Friedemann

Publication

New York : P. Lang, 1995.

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Details

Description

xxx, 210 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Revisioning philosophy, 0899-9937 ; vol. 20

Uniform Title

Revisioning philosophy ; v. 20.

Subject

• Anthroposophy
• Consciousness
• Knowledge, Theory of
• Logos (Philosophy)
• Steiner, Rudolf, 1861-1925. Philosophie der Freiheit
• Logos (Christian theology)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-203) and index.

Contents

• 1. Empiricism: Experience and Science. Francis Bacon. Thomas Hobbes. John Locke. George Berkeley. David Hume -- 2. Critical Idealism: Constituents of Experience. The Transcendental Given. The Empirical Given -- 3. Neopositivism: Empiricism of Sensation. Ernst Mach. Viennese Circle -- 4. Idealism: The Sphere of the Witness -- 5. Phenomenology of the Spirit: Givenness of the Idea. The Life of Concepts in the Light of Experience. Presence of the Witness. Dialectic Transformation -- 6. Phenomenology: The Eidos in Sense-Perception. Phenomenological Reduction. The Given -- 7. Phenomenology of Consciousness: Cognition. Thinking and Cognition. Given and Not-Given. Freedom. Imagination. Imaginative Perception. Thinking Imagination -- 8. Rational Empiricism: The Archetypal Phenomenon. Outer Context, Inner Connection: Living Organism. Recognizing or Reading? -- 9. Empirical Idealism: Language and Understanding. Nature of the Word. Hierarchy of Given and Not-Given. Intuition and Attention.
• 10. The Logos-Principle: the Faculty of Attention. The Source of Speaking: Logos. The Key of the Given -- 11. The Reversal of the Will: Instructed Not-Knowing. Source of Light. Source of Life. The Word in the Beginning -- 12. Assimilation to Truth -- 13. The Book of Nature: Reality. Structure of Language, Structure of Nature. Feeling Perception. Paradigm of Reality -- 14. Toward an Ecology of Consciousness -- 15. Metamorphosis of the Given -- 16. Logos and Paradigm: Possibilities for Logos Activity in the Formation of Paradigms. The Meaning of Life. The Meaning of Logos. Experience of Meaning. Shared Meaning. The Meaning of Coming to a New Paradigm. The Source of Speaking. Feeling of Evidence. Cosmos of Conversation. The Heart of the Matter. Essence of Light. Growing of Age. Footsteps of the Logos. I and Non-I. Nature of Reality. The Meeting Place -- Postscript: Spiritual Empiricism -- Postscript: Spiritual Communion.

ISBN

0820425850

LCCN

94020467

OCLC

• 30593988
• ocm30593988

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries