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    Re-thinking Europe vol. II

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    The second volume of the series Re-thinking Europe offers an extended and revised version of a collection of papers selected from those presented at the third edition of the workshop Rethinking Europe held on 19th December 2014 at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) and organised by the Centre for Ethics and Humanism in collaboration with the Centre for Critical Philosophy of Ghent University. As the reader will see, the present volume examines a diversity of topics (cosmopolitanism, fraternity, the burqa ban debate, political theology, human rights and democracy) from very different perspectives, methodological strategies and scientific backgrounds. Nevertheless, all papers share the same ultimate horizon of meaning: Europe as an on-going challenge of permanent reflection on the limits, constraints and possibilities of critical thinking

    Schiller and the recognition of the other in its otherness: the challenge of thinking intersubjectivity according to a logic of the difference

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    In this paper I analyse F. Schiller’s conception of recognition. This conception has been hitherto ignored by the studies on the history of philosophy and by the contemporary debate on recognition. The thesis of the present paper is that Schiller’s reflexions about the question on recognition opens up the possibility for recognizing the other in its otherness and/or uniqueness. Accordingly, the present paper attempts not only at a revision and improvement of the vision we have about Eighteenth Century German Philosophy, but also at offering a new point of view from which the contemporary debate can be critically analysed

    How radical can enlightenment be?

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    A special issue of the journal Philosophica (UGent) on the radical Enlightenment. Authors: Margaret Jacob (UCLA), Charles Wolfe (UGent), Boris Demarest (UGent), Elisabeth Van Dam (UGent), Florian Heyerick (HOGent) and Laura Anna Macor

    L’annihilation de l’état à partir des concepts d’homme, société et état dans les leçons sur la destination du savant

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    Libéraux et socialistes, nationalistes et cosmopolites, réactionnaires et révolutionnaires, anarchistes et républicains, bellicistes et pacifistes, se sont également disputés l’héritage de Fichte, et l’ont également condamné, attribuant au philosophe la responsabilité du meilleur comme du pire. Le colloque international organisé à Madrid en mai 2007, dont les communications sont publiées ici, a saisi l’occasion du bicentenaire des Discours à la nation allemande (1807-1808) et de la parution de la traduction française de la Doctrine de l’Etat (1813), qui contient le dernier mot de Fichte en matière de philosophie politique, pour mettre en valeur la position originale de Fichte au-delà des clivages idéologiques qui ont dominé la réception de son oeuvre. Fichte assume le premier l’affirmation de l’essence proprement politique de la philosophie et s’engage dès ses premiers écrits dans la voie d’une réflexion sur la puissance et l’urgence de la praxis politique à mettre en oeuvre aux antipodes du formalisme juridique et des visions totalisantes de la philosophie spéculative. C’est ce pragmatisme politique, cette philosophie réaliste de l’action politico-sociale, qui caractérise l’apport original de Fichte à la pensée politique et à la politique contemporaine. La philosophie de Fichte ressort des contributions publiées ici comme une authentique philosophie de la libération concrète à l’égard de toutes les formes d’aliénation qui dominent la modernité. Elle offre alors des orientations précieuses pour penser les problèmes qui occupent notre actualité: l’organisation du travail et de la propriété, l’éducation, le marché globalisé, l’équilibre des puissances mondiales et la construction d’une politique européenne tournée vers la réalisation universelle du droit et la paix dans le monde

    The Architectonic of the deduction of the categories in Fichte's Foundations of the entire science of knowledge of 1794/95

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    The present paper examines the systematic structure of Fichte's deduction of the categories in his Foundations of the entire Science of Knowledge (1794/95). It will be argued i) that Fichte develops a system of three categories groups (relation, quality and quantity), each of them composed by three categories; ii) that the chief category of Fichte's system, contrary to the traditional interpretation of the Fichtean table of categories, is the category of reciprocal determination; iii) that Fichte's deduction implies the exclusion from the categories system of both the modal categories and the Kantian distinction between dynamic and mathematic categories. In the last part the conventional reading of Fichte's deduction of the categories is critically analysed

    Pensar tres absolutos: Kant, Fichte, Deleuze y Boeder

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    Diálogo interreligioso y reconocimiento a la luz del legado de la ilustración

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    Departing from a study of the imagery and conceptual legacy of European Enlightenment in broader sense, this article offers a conception of interreligious dialogue based on a logic of difference. First, our post-secular time is briefly described in order to justify the need of the present study. Secondly, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s parable of the three rings in his Nathan the wise is analyzed in order to show, on the one hand, to what extent the Enlightenment can provide images (allegories, metaphors) for rethinking dialogue among religions, and, on the other, to what extent Lessing’s account is conditioned by a logic of identity, which prevents a positive recognition of the particularity of each of the religions involved in the dialogue. Thirdly, an alternative to this problem is developed by examining the concepts of recognition in two authors of the late German Enlightenment, namely, Schiller and Schelling. Both, it is argued, conceive recognition from a logic of difference that results in a positive recovery of the particular content of religions. So, it is shown that dialogue is only possible if the dignity of the differences of the actors involved in the dialogue is recognized as such. Fourthly and finally, the article concludes with some reflections for outlining a praxis of interreligious dialogue based on both the affirmation of the own identity and the recognition of the other in his or her otherness.El presente artículo ofrece una concepción del diálogo interreligioso a partir del legado imaginario y conceptual de la Ilustración europea en sentido amplio. En primer lugar, se analiza la parábola de los tres anillos en Natán el sabio de Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Se intenta mostrar: i) en qué medida la ilustración puede brindar imágenes (alegorías, metáforas) que sirvan a repensar el diálogo entre religiones; y ii) en qué medida el discurso de Lessing está condicionado por una lógica de la identidad, la cual impide un reconocimiento positivo de la particularidad de cada una de las religiones involucradas en el diálogo. En segundo lugar, se brinda una alternativa a este problema mediante el análisis de las concepciones del reconocimiento en dos autores de la ilustración alemana tardía, Schiller y Schelling. Ambos, se argumenta, conciben el reconocimiento desde una lógica de la diferencia, la cual hace posible una recuperación positiva del contenido particular de las religiones, mostrando que el diálogo sólo es posible a partir del reconocimiento de la dignidad de las diferencias de quienes participan en el diálogo. En tercer lugar, por último, se ofrecen, a modo de conclusión, una serie de reflexiones con vistas a delinear una praxis de diálogo interreligioso a partir de la afirmación de la propia identidad y el reconocimiento del otro en su otredad

    Transformation of the Kantian table of the categories in Fichte’s Foundations of the entire science of knowledge of 1794/95

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    El presente artículo analiza la deducción fichteana de la categorías en el Fundamento de toda la doctrina de la ciencia de 1794/95 a la luz de la comprensión que tiene Fichte, durante los años de la génesis y publicación de esta obra, acerca de su relación con la filosofía kantiana con respecto a la cuestión de las categorías. Se argumenta que la deducción fichteana de las categorías en esta obra de 1794/95 transforma la tabla kantiana de las categorías en una tríada de tríadas (nueve categorías reunidas en los grupos de relación, cantidad, cualidad) en la que la determinación recíproca es la categoría fundamental, el grupo de la modalidad queda excluido y la distinción entre categorías matemáticas y dinámicas desaparece. El análisis de la deducción fichteana es seguido de una revisión crítica de las interpretaciones habituales sobre este tema.The present paper analyses Fichte’s deduction of the categories in the Foundations of the entire Science of Knowledge (1794/95) from the perspective of Fichte’s view about the relation between his system and the Kantian philosophy concerning the question of the categories. It will be argued that Fichte modifies the Kantian table of the categories into a system of three categories groups, each of them composed by three categories. This implies, as it will be shown, the postulation of the reciprocal determination as first category and the exclusion from the categories system of both the modal categories and the distinction between dynamic and mathematic categories. The traditional interpretation of Fichte’s deduction of the categories is discussed
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