The paper was presented at the conference "For Hegel: Telos and Totality" in Maastricht (December 2012). On 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
COBISS.SI-ID: 51286626The 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.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 50718818The project group member Gregor Kroupa participated in the international conference “Corruption and social development” in Belgrade, Serbia. The conference was dedicated to both theoretical and practical analyses of the phenomenon of corruption in the public sphere. The paper focuses on the wider philosophical background of the problem of corruption in Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau belonged to a generation which had sharply criticized the cultural, political and public life of its time, although his perspective was much gloomier thatn the historical optimism of his contemporaries. The author analyzes the premises and the implications of Rousseau’s original view that every corruption in natural, even if it is not strictly necessary.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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