(HS/OS) Die Philosophie des Handelns und ihre historischen Wurzeln
Dozent:innen: Dr. Gerad GentryKurzname: HS/OS Handeln
Kurs-Nr.: 05.127.400
Kurstyp: Seminar
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
The course will be hybrid English and German with some text in English and some in German.Empfohlene Literatur
We will take as our starting point for discussion excerpts on action from Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics, Kant’s Kritik der praktischen Vernunft and Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten, Hegel’s Philosophie des Geistes and Philosophie des Rechts as well as:Donald Davidson, “Actions, Reasons, and Causes,” (The Journal of Philosophy, 1963).
Gertrude Anscombe, “The Causation of Action” and “Action, Intention and ‘Double Effect,’” Intention (Harvard, 2009),
Charles Taylor on “Action” from Hegel and Modern Society, Cambridge, 1979
Christine Korsgaard, Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity (Oxford, 2009)
Michael Quante, Hegels Begriff der Handlung (Frommann-holzboog, 1993)
Inhalt
This course engages central questions and challenges within philosophy of action. The philosophy of Gertrude Anscombe, Donald Davidson, Christine Korsgaard, and Charles Taylor have played a large role in defining contemporary action theory. Their philosophy of action has strong roots in the philosophy of mind and ethics of Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel. In this course, we will trace a specific thread in the philosophy of action from its roots in Aristotle and Kant through Hegel. In particular, we will focus on what Hegel (and Charles Taylor after him) add to the contemporary discourse. We will explore Hegel’s concept of action as the actualization of rational freedom. For Hegel an action is an action by degrees, since rational freedom is not a state, but following Aristotle, is an activity. We will investigate how an intentional movement might be more or less fully “action”. Since rational freedom for Hegel is distinct from arbitrary choice or nonrational intention, an action is the actualization of rational freedom and it is so by degrees. We will explore how Hegel’s contribution to contemporary action theory via Charles Taylor, suggests that the standard for action becomes, on the one hand, more qualitatively restrictive, yet on the other hand, more broadly applicable, such as to non-human individuals, like educational or social institution or the state. We will ask what consequences such a concept of action has for moral and rational culpability, responsibility, and identity. How does reason relate to action? Are reasons mere rationalizations, or causes of action, or are actions actualizations of reason itself? The aim of this course is to gain some insight into how action has been conceived and why. We will aim to understand and gain insight into contemporary concerns through the historical roots of these ideas.Termine
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| 24.10.2024 (Donnerstag) | 18:15 - 19:45 | 01 441 P105 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 31.10.2024 (Donnerstag) | 18:15 - 19:45 | 01 441 P105 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 07.11.2024 (Donnerstag) | 18:15 - 19:45 | 01 441 P105 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 14.11.2024 (Donnerstag) | 18:15 - 19:45 | 01 441 P105 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 21.11.2024 (Donnerstag) | 18:15 - 19:45 | 01 441 P105 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 28.11.2024 (Donnerstag) | 18:15 - 19:45 | 01 441 P105 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 05.12.2024 (Donnerstag) | 18:15 - 19:45 | 01 441 P105 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 12.12.2024 (Donnerstag) | 18:15 - 19:45 | 01 441 P105 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 19.12.2024 (Donnerstag) | 18:15 - 19:45 | 01 441 P105 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 09.01.2025 (Donnerstag) | 18:15 - 19:45 | 01 441 P105 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 16.01.2025 (Donnerstag) | 18:15 - 19:45 | 01 441 P105 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 23.01.2025 (Donnerstag) | 18:15 - 19:45 | 01 441 P105 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 30.01.2025 (Donnerstag) | 18:15 - 19:45 | 01 441 P105 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 06.02.2025 (Donnerstag) | 18:15 - 19:45 | 01 441 P105 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |