324 Pages
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Routledge
324 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
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Routledge
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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. Kaufmann drastically revises traditional conceptions of Goethe, Kant, and Hegel, showing how their ideas about the mind were shaped by their own distinctive mentalities. Kaufmann's version of... Read more
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
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Kaufmann, Walter
