Principles of Philosophy: A Phenomenological Approach

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Contents
Preface
1. A Propaedeutic Distinction: Operative Concepts versus Ontological Concepts (On Σχολή)
Appendix 1: From the Preface to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (1806)
2. Introduction
Appendix 2: Kant on the Learning and Teaching of Philosophy
3. The End of Philosophy — and Beyond
	3.1 Contingency
	3.2 Why Engage with the Principles of Philosophy?
Appendix 3: Schelling on the Condition for Attaining the Point of Inception of Philosophy
4. Heraclitus
	4.1 Logos
	4.2 Harmonia
	4.3 Kosmos
	4.4 Physis
Appendix 4: On Abscondedness
	1. In the visible domain:
	2. In the mindable domain:
5. Parmenides
	5.1 Preliminary Consideration: the Word »Being«
	5.2 Fundamental Concepts
		(1) The notion of physis
		(2) The notion of alētheia
		(3) The notions of einai and eon
		(4) The notion of noein
	5.3 Fragment VI: Being’s Need
	5.4 The Paths of Inquiry
	5.5 Circuits and Cybernetics
	5.6 Fragment VIII: the Traits of Being
	5.7 The Ontological Temptation
	5.8 The Philosophical Question
6. Plato
	6.1 The Structure and Scope of the Guiding Question of Philosophy
	6.2 Plato’s Answer to the Guiding Question of Philosophy
	6.3 The Traits of the Idea and its Reference to Physis
	6.4 The Idea of the Good
	6.5 Paideia
	6.6 The Myth of the Cave
	6.7 Plato and the Onto-theo-logical Constitution of Metaphysics
Appendix 5: Plato on the Uselessness of Philosophy
Appendix 6: Heidegger on the Eros of Being
7. Aristotle
8. Transition to Modernity[srtn](On Method)
Appendix 7: From Galilei’s Discorsi
9. Descartes
	9.1 The Meditations as First Philosophy
	9.2 What is Old and what is New in the Philosophy of the »New Time«
		(a) What is old
		(b) What is new
	9.3 Descartes’s First Principle
	9.4 What Does »to Cogitate« Mean?
		(i) Cogitating as perceiving (percipere)
		(ii) Cogitating as doubting (dubitare)
		(iii) Cogitating as »I cogitate myself cogitating« (cogito me cogitare) or as self-assuring assurance
	9.5 The Cogitating I as Subiectum
	9.6 Recapitulation of Descartes’s Metaphysical Position
Appendix 8: From Descartes’s Meditations
10. Leibniz
	10.1 Leibniz’s Answer to the Guiding Question of Philosophy
	10.2 The Principle of Sufficient Reason
	10.3 The Original (Harmonic) Economy of the World
11. Kant
	11.1 The Transcendental Experience
	11.2 The Position of Being and the Original Unity of Apperception
Appendix 9: Schelling on the Desirableness of Philosophy
12. Nietzsche
	12.1 Nietzsche’s Answer to the Guiding Question of Philosophy: Life and the Will to Power
	12.2 Values as Conditions of the Will to Power
	12.3 The Will to Power as the Cause of Universal Becoming and the Absence of a »True World«
	12.4 Becoming as an Approximation of Being
	12.5 Nihilism and the Necessary Inversion of the Polarity of Values
	12.6 The Overall Economic Management of the Earth and the Overman
13. Heidegger
	13.1 The End of Philosophy
	13.2 The Task Held in Store
	13.3 Being and Time
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