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New Research on the Philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann Unauthenticated Download Date | 11/18/19 1:09 AM Unauthenticated Download Date | 11/18/19 1:09 AM New Research on the Philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann Edited by Keith Peterson and Roberto Poli Unauthenticated Download Date | 11/18/19 1:09 AM ISBN 978-3-11-044102-4 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-043437-8 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-043314-2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck ♾ Printed on acid-free paper Printed in Germany www.degruyter.com Unauthenticated Download Date | 11/18/19 1:09 AM Table of Contents Part One: Philosophy of Nature and Ontology Roberto Poli Chapter 1 Pure and Qualified Time 3 Simonluca Pinna Chapter 2 Hartmann on Spacetime and Geometry 23 Kari Väyrynen Chapter 3 Nicolai Hartmann’s Concept of Causality 45 Carlo Brentari Chapter 4 “The Role of the Missing Reason”: The Search fora Stratum-Specific Form of Determination in Nicolai Hartmann’s Theory of Life 65 Michael Kleineberg Chapter 5 From Linearity to Co-Evolution: On the Architecture of Nicolai Hartmann’s Levels of Reality 81 Keith R. Peterson Chapter 6 Flat, Hierarchical, or Stratified? Determination and Dependence in Social-Natural Ontology 109 Part Two: Hartmann and Others Claudia Luchetti Chapter 7 The Discovery of A Priori Knowledge: Hartmann’s Interpretation of Plato’s Theory of Recollection 135 Unauthenticated Download Date | 3/4/17 1:08 PM VI TableofContents Tina Röck Chapter 8 The Being of Becoming in Pre-socratic Philosophy 153 Simona Bertolini Chapter 9 Beings in the World: Elements fora Comparison between Nicolai Hartmann and Roman Ingarden 171 Salvatore Vasta Chapter 10 The Place of Nicolai Hartmann’s Ontology in Konrad Lorenz’s Epistemology 191 Part Three: Individual and Objective Spirit Robert Zaborowski Chapter 11 Investigating Affectivity in light of Hartmann’s Layered Structure of Reality 209 Natalia Danilkina Chapter 12 From Value Being to Human Being: The Ways of Nicolai Hartmann’s Anthropology 229 Andreas A. M. Kinneging Chapter 13 Nicolai Hartmann and Natural Law 247 Katrin Lörch Chapter 14 Personality, Autonomy, Fairness: On Nicolai Hartmann’s Material Ethics of Value in the Age of Human Enhancement 267 Jordi Claramonte Chapter 15 Modal Aesthetics 283 Unauthenticated Download Date | 3/4/17 1:08 PM TableofContents VII Carlo Scognamiglio Chapter 16 Nicolai Hartmann’s Thoughts on Education 297 Predrag Cicovacki Chapter 17 “The Socratic Pathos of Wonder”: On Hartmann’s Conception of Philosophy 313 Author Index 333 Subject Index 335 Unauthenticated Download Date | 3/4/17 1:08 PM Unauthenticated Download Date | 3/4/17 1:08 PM Foreword There is clear evidence that international interest in the philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann is growing. Numbered among these pieces of evidence are recent essaycollectionsdevotedtoHartmann’sphilosophyinGermanandEnglish(Har- tung/Wunsch/Strube2012;Poli/Scognamiglio/Tremblay2011),internationalcon- ferences on his work, reissued editions and translations of Hartmann’s works into English (Hartmann 2002; 2004; 2012; 2013; 2014), and papers and books publishedinnumerouslanguagesoverthepastdecade,includingEnglish,Ger- man,Italian,Polish,Spanish,Portuguese,andTurkish.¹Thisvolumeisafurther contribution to the new research in the growing English-language literature on Hartmann. It is not our intention heretointroduce Hartmann to readers not al- ready familiar with his philosophy and approach, since introductoryessays are readilyavailable(e.g.,Poli2012;Peterson2012).Thisvolumeofessayshasbeen selectedfromthepaperspresentedattheSecondInternationalConferenceofthe NicolaiHartmann Societyheld in Trento,Italy, 25–27August2014.Theorderin which the papers appear here is somewhat arbitrary,but we have made the at- tempt to organize them thematically, partially in accordance with Hartmann’s ownconceptionofphilosophy.Herewewillsayafewwordsabouttheindividual contributions in relation to these major thematic areas. While he wroteonvirtuallyeverymajorphilosophicaltopic,Hartmannwas primarilyanontologist,andhewasacentralfigureintherenaissanceofontol- ogyintheearlytwentiethcentury.Hisdistinctiverealistontologycutsomewhat againstthegrainofthephilosophicalmainstreamatthetime,butthephilosoph- icalatmosphereisnowmorehospitabletorealistinvestigationsintothephilos- ophy of nature and ontology. In the first section on“Philosophy of Nature and Ontology” are included chapters on Hartmann’s conceptions of time, causality and determination, and stratification or levels of reality. His extensive analysis of time and space in his massive tome Philosophie der Natur takes up more than two-hundred pages of the book, and has been seldom treated. The first two papers deal with this analysis.With reference to the discussions of time in Hartmann’s philosophy of nature, R. Poli draws a distinction between pure time (as ontological category or principle) and qualified time or temporality (ascategorialdetermination).Hearguesthatwithoutsuchadistinction,current theoriesoftimesufferfromseveralcategorialconfusions,especiallyconcerning socialtime.S.PinnaplacesHartmann’sdiscussions ofthefundamentalcatego- An extensive bibliography can be found at the webpage of the Nicolai Hartmann Society, formedin.Seenicolaihartmannsociety.org/?page_id=. Brought to you by | Universität Osnabrück Authenticated Download Date | 1/12/16 7:19 PM X Foreword riesofphysicsintothecontextofcontemporarydebatesinmodernquantumand relativity theory over the epistemic and ontological status of spacetime. He claims that Hartmann would agree with those physicists who uphold the onto- logical primacyof geometrical categories. Hartmann’spluralisticontologyalsoarticulatesnolessthanfifteenformsof determination,includingthecausalnexus,theorganicnexus,andthefinalistic nexus. K.Väyrynen remarks on theinnovativenatureofHartmann’s conception of causality, and points out both its consonance and its dissonance with con- temporary discussions of causality. In light of it, he challenges contemporary theoriststoincorporateontologicaldiscussionsofcausalityasextensiveasHart- mann’sown.C.BrentariexaminesHartmann’sspecialcategoriesforcharacteriz- ing organic life, and carefully situates his views beyond the sterile debate be- tween mechanists and teleological vitalists. He claims that the autonomous mode of determination proper to living things is relevant for contemporarydis- cussions of biosemiotics as well. Finally,perhapsthemostdistinctivefeatureofHartmann’scategorialontol- ogyishisconceptionofontologicalstrata.Thelasttwocontributionsinthissec- tionaddresshisconceptionofstratificationfromtwodifferentdirections.M.Klei- neberg considers the concept of ontological levels of reality, and contests Hartmann’slinearorderingoflevelsinlightofothermodels,includingPoli’stri- angular scheme and Wilber’s quadrant model. He argues that a“co-evolution- ary”modelismorefittingfordescribingthestructureoftherealworld.K.Peter- son also addresses the notion of ontological levels, marking some differences between ancient hierarchical, contemporary flat, and Hartmann’s stratified on- tologies. He argues that the originality of Hartmann’s stratified view should notbeunderestimated,thatitshouldnotreadilybeassimilatedwithotherhier- archicalschemes,andthatitisinfactmoreappropriatethanothersforcharac- terizing the dependent position of human beings in the world. The second section, “Hartmann and Others,” shows that Hartmann was al- mostalwaysinimplicitorexplicitdialoguewithhispredecessorsandcontempo- raries,andthathisworkcanalsobeprofitablyusedtoilluminatethem.Hisearly workontheGreeks,especiallyPlato,undertheinfluenceofNatorpandCohenat Marburg, remained significant for him throughout his career.C. Luchetti exam- inesHartmann’sinterpretationofPlato’stheoryofrecollectionwithreferenceto the concept of the a priori, and how his interpretation differs from his teacher Natorp’s. She argues that Hartmann avoids the pitfall of interpreting apriorism through the anachronistic lens of Kantianism,which results in a superior inter- pretation of Plato and the a priori.T. Röck discusses Hartmann’s ontology with referencetotheconceptofphysisinearlyGreekphilosophy,andarguesthatby avoiding the post-Parmenidean “division” of being and becoming, Hartmann’s Brought to you by | Universität Osnabrück Authenticated Download Date | 1/12/16 7:19 PM
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