Experience embodied early modern accounts of the human place in nature
Anik Waldow develops an account of embodied experience that extends from Descartes's conception of the human body as firmly integrated into the causal play of nature, to Kant's understanding of anthropology as a discipline that provides us with guidance in our lives as embodied creatures....
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Anik Waldow develops an account of embodied experience that extends from Descartes's conception of the human body as firmly integrated into the causal play of nature, to Kant's understanding of anthropology as a discipline that provides us with guidance in our lives as embodied creatures. Waldow defends the claim that during the early modern period, the debate on experience not only focused on questions arising from the subjectivity of our thinking and feeling but also foregrounded the essentially embodied dimension of our lives as humans. By taking this approach, Waldow departs from the traditional epistemological route dominant in treatments of early-modern conceptions of experience. She makes the case that reflections on experience took center stage in a debate that was moral in nature, because it raised questions about the developmental potential of human beings and their capacity to instantiate the principles of self-determined agency in their lives |
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| Beschreibung: | xiv, 294 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780190086114 978-0-19-008611-4 |