Article ID: CBB119675685

Selbstorganisation und Selbstgesetzgebung. Form und Grenze einer Analogie in der Philosophie Kants und Hegels (2009)

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The paper investigates philosophical conceptions of the living that were articulated in Kantian and Hegelian philosophy. The paper argues that in Kant and post-Kantian philosophy the conception of the living serves as a hinge or joint in order to mediate between conceptions of the realm of nature and conceptions of the realm of freedom. In opposition to the Cartesian tradition that had tried to grasp living beings in terms of organized machines, Kant characterizes living beings not only as organized, but as self-organizing beings. Living beings thus do not depend on a conception of their whole external to them (a conception present in the mind of a putative creator). They rather determine themselves. If one understands freedom as being under self-given laws as Kant and his successors did, then living beings as self-organizing entities seem structurally akin to the form of autonomy. The paper argues that it is this kinship that explains the interest that Kant and his successors have taken in the subject matter of the living. In conceiving of living entities in terms of self-organizing beings, some elements of nature seem to be graspable in terms of an inner purposiveness that makes understandable how freedom might be actualized in nature. Although Kant has not fully developed and deployed the analogy of living self-organization and practical selfdetermination, it had a crucial impact on post-Kantian philosophy. The paper tries to delineate this impact by turning to Hegel who has deepened the analogy without annihilating the difference between living self-organization and practical selfdetermination.

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Authors & Contributors
Appelqvist, Hanne
Boccaccini, Federico
Emundts, Dina
Stovall, Preston
Flodin, Camilla
Brown, Nathan
Concepts
Philosophy
Psychology
Idealism (philosophy)
Mechanism; mechanical philosophy
Logic
Philosophy of science
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
20th century
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
Germany
Americas
Institutions
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
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