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Subject: Seminar: On Apriority: Reasoning and Function of the Apriori and of the Constitutive Apriorities
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Michael Thomas, METU, Department of Philosophy
On Apriority: Reasoning and Function of the Apriori and of the Constitutive Apriorities

Abstract:

In my paper, I would like to introduce the position of a modern systematic philosophy and to provide this theory to the discussion.
Hans Wagner (1917 - 2000) did not want to content himself either with the hermeneutic re-enactment of  tradition as history of being or with the formal analysis of the specific sciences, but he intended to recover philosophy's authentic role as the ultimate justification of all human thought and action.
Therefore, he advanced transcendental philosophy being mainly orientated to Kant, enlarged by ideas of Hegel, of Neo-Kantianism and of phenomenology.
Wagner attempted a full justification of his position in his systematic main work "Philosophy and Reflexion" (1959). Here I especially refer to its §§ 11 - 19, pp. 87-180.
The crucial part of this work shows a theory of the apriori which makes a distinction of four different steps of the apriori:

1) The primary-constitutive apriority,
2) The secondary-constitutive apriority,
3) The regulative apriority,
4) The systematic apriority.

My comments here are limited to the first two apriorities and emphazise their reasoning.
The importance and the extent of this subject require the following course of the discussion:

A. Starting point is the problem of knowledge: which are the conditions for the possibility of experience?
B. The problem of knowledge turns to the formal logical problem because the conditions of knowledge, first of all, prove to be formal logical ones.
C. The regress of reasoning demands a speculative, logical discussion of the "absolute".
D. The attempt at a solution by the Neo-Kantianism: "the constitutive relation as absolute".
E. The absolute as self-determination of thinking.
F. The primary-constitutive Apriority
G. The secondary-constitutive Apriority

The following discussion focuses on the part of reasoning so that the last part can be kept short.
Date of event: 15/03/2010 - 15:00
Place: METU, Department of Philosophy, B103
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Category: Culture & Arts
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