Lewin, M. Hegel’s Logic of Forces and the Faculty Psychology, Hegel-Jahrbuch (in press). 1 Introduction The concept of force (dynamis, potentia) was introduced as a technical term into philosophy by Aristotle. In his metaphysics, he attributes dynamis to a substance if it can modify or be modified by another substance. The concept of […]
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The Faculty of Ideas. Kant’s Concept of Reason in the Narrower Sense
Lewin, M. 2022. The Faculty of Ideas. Kant’s Concept of Reason in the Narrower Sense, Open Philosophy 5/1: 340-359. https://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2022-0203. Abstract: In the Transcendental Dialectic, Kant searched for a universal concept of reason different from the understanding, and offered the short formula “the faculty of principles” (KrV A299/B356). I will argue that this is only one, and […]