This is Hegel's main work on political philosophy and philosophy of law, in which he defines the basic social categories, such as the state, freedom, family, public opinion etc. The translation, introduction and editing was done by Zdravko Kobe. The publishing of this book is an important contribution to the body of translations of the classics of the history of political philosophy. The work on the translation was in progress since the beginning of this research project.
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 271154176Another contribution of the research group to availability of classic works of political philosophy in Slovenian language is the publication of Bentham's Fragment on Government, in which Bentham formulates , for the first time, his "principle of utility", or, the principle of "the greatest happiness for the greatest number". Utilitarianism is an original contribution to the notion of the public, since it is directly concerned with the discrepancy between the generality of laws and privateness of the pleasures of individuals. The work has been translated by Zdenka Erbežnik and Gregor Kroupa, who also edited the volume and wrote the Introduction "Bentham: Public Benefit against Fiction".
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 270685952The project group member Gregor Kroupa participated in the international conference “The Ethical challenge of Multidisciplinarity” in Nicosia (Cyprus) in July 2012, which is organized by The International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI) every two years. The paper focuses on the logical and organizational structure on early modern encyclopedias as far as it is the most problematic element of the public presentation of knowledge. The paper compares – in the context of the so called ‘information overload’, which had worried the early modern scholars – the designs of the encyclopedias of Diderot and Leibniz, while underlining Leibniz’s conceptualization of the index as the fundamental tool for the organization of the body of knowledge and for the orientation of the wider public in it. The paper (in English) will be published in the conference proceedings, presumably in 2013.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 54919266On the basis of re-reading of “Sense Certainty” from the beginning of Phenomenology of Spirit, the author investigates the birth of a new “truth value” in Hegelian philosophy. As opposed to rationalist and empiricist equation between truth and immediacy and Kantian presumed totality of immediate intuitions in regulative ideas, Hegel may have originated a world-view of indifference of notions to their immediate content. This ontology of releasing, discharge, and de-totalization operates as a precondition of the conceptualization of public speech.
B.04 Guest lecture
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