Category: Hartmann, Nicolai
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Hartmann on Kierkegaard
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Crises There Will Always Be
I cite the example of Nicolai Hartmann in a Substack entry from March, 2022. So buck up and fight on. Philosophy is a great consolation. We lesser lights ought to look up to the luminaries, and their example. Boethius wrote in prison, Nicolai Hartmann in Berlin in 1945 in the midst of the Allied assault.…
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Crises There Will Always Be
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There Have Always Been Crises
My wife just now handed me a book from her library, one that I had read in the '70s, but had forgotten, The Pursuit of Loneliness by Philip Slater. It was published in 1970 by the Beacon Press (Boston). It bears the subtitle, "American Culture at the Breaking Point." Somehow we didn't break: here we…
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Nicolai Hartmann on Søren Kierkegaard and Competing Attitudes Toward Individuality
Although existentialist themes can be traced all the way back to Socrates and then forward through St. Augustine and Blaise Pascal, to mention only three pre-Kierkegaardian luminaries, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) is rightly regarded as the father of existentialism. His worked proved to be seminal for that of Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, and Jean-Paul Sartre, to…
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Contingent, Necessary, Impossible: A Note on Nicolai Hartmann
Nicolai Hartmann, Moeglichkeit und Wirklichkeit, p. 29: . . . denn das Zufaellige ist immerhim wirklich, und nur die Notwendigkeit negiert. Hartmann is saying in effect that everything contingent is actual, and that the contingent and the necessary are polar opposites: what is contingent is not necessary, and what is not necessary is contingent. I beg…