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One could say that the central aim of Brittan’s study of Kant’s philosophy of mathematics and physics is to place that philosophy within the historical context of modern attempts to "justify," or in other terms, to give "epistemological foundations," to the mathematical sciences. In Brittan’s account, it was Kant’s unique achievement to expose the error of "reductionism" committed by all such attempts, and to give philosophical reflection on the exact sciences another direction which, with some modifications, is still fruitful today. (...) With the help of Kant, Brittan would expose the problems of the scientific thought not only of early modern metaphysicians and empiricists, but of contemporary logicians and philosophical analysts, who perpetuate the reductionist error. (shrink)

Wood aims at correcting an undue emphasis upon the negative or critical aspect of Kant’s theological thought. He seeks to achieve this object through two distinct inquiries: into the positive component of Kant’s rational theology, chiefly the account of the ens realissimium [[sic]] as the necessary ideal assumed by reason in its attempt to arrive at a complete determination of the properties of things, presented in the "Ideal of Reason" in the "Dialectic" of the first Critique, ; into the strengths (...) and weaknesses of the criticisms of the ontological and natural proofs of the existence of a supreme being, found chiefly in sections 3-7 of the "Ideal of Reason". The author here is centrally concerned with salvaging the ontological argument from Kant’s famous and still highly regarded attack. These two inquiries correspond to the two main parts of the text. The second part also contains a discussion and criticism of the role which theistic concepts play in the regulative idea of the unity of the laws of nature, as discussed in the "Appendix" to the "Dialectic". (shrink)

The shaping of a personality occurs in a given social environment, of which the intellectual, moral, and social-psychological climate characteristic of the given society is an inseparable component. This state of society is created by virtue of the cultural values society has at its disposal, the totality of the social norms regulating the social and interpersonal relationships among human beings and their social behavior, and by virtue of the entire spectrum of social feelings, attitudes, emotions, and value orientations of the (...) members of society. (shrink)

Because of the outward openness of Platonov's world, and the existence in it of recognizable, seemingly deliberately enhanced motifs, one can easily be misled or in any event confused, never getting to the source of this diversity of meanings which, however, by being repeated over and over again, becomes a kind of monotone calling upon us to make sense of it as well. Something similar may also be identified in Dostoevsky: one and the same element, repeated incessantly, creates an "emblematic (...) theme" or an "ontological schema" the contours of which are discernible in almost all his major writings. (shrink)