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Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern PhilosophySensibility and Metaphysics: Diderot, Hume, Baumgarten, and Herder

Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy: Sensibility and Metaphysics: Diderot, Hume,... [Reconciling, or choosing between, the competing demands of reason and sensibility was the most urgent philosophical concern of the second half of the eighteenth century. Defenders of the importance of sensibility such as Diderot had argued that it underlay not just affective states but cognitive ones as well. Hume’s attack on metaphysics had threatened the one remaining metaphysical tradition of the mid-eighteenth century, namely that of Wolff and his followers. In response, the Wolffian metaphysician Baumgarten attempted to show how sensibility could be taken seriously in Wolffian terms, while remaining subordinated to reason. Herder took this as his starting point, inverting it to show how one might use a naturalized notion of sensibility as a model for a naturalization of reason.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern PhilosophySensibility and Metaphysics: Diderot, Hume, Baumgarten, and Herder

Part of the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Book Series (volume 29)
Editors: Lenz, Martin; Waldow, Anik
Gaukroger, Stephen
Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy — Mar 11, 2013
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordecht. 2013
ISBN
978-94-007-6240-4
Pages
101 –113
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-6241-1_7
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Abstract

[Reconciling, or choosing between, the competing demands of reason and sensibility was the most urgent philosophical concern of the second half of the eighteenth century. Defenders of the importance of sensibility such as Diderot had argued that it underlay not just affective states but cognitive ones as well. Hume’s attack on metaphysics had threatened the one remaining metaphysical tradition of the mid-eighteenth century, namely that of Wolff and his followers. In response, the Wolffian metaphysician Baumgarten attempted to show how sensibility could be taken seriously in Wolffian terms, while remaining subordinated to reason. Herder took this as his starting point, inverting it to show how one might use a naturalized notion of sensibility as a model for a naturalization of reason.]

Published: Mar 11, 2013

Keywords: Eighteenth Century; Moral Sensibility; Moral Diversity; Empirical Psychology; Aesthetic Sensibility

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