Self Consciousness and Freedom. Robert Brandom gives a short, informal talk at Pitt.
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- Self-Consciousness and Freedom in Kant and Hegel
A short, informal talk at the University of Pittsburgh on April 8, 2021
Robert Brandom
(Much more content available for free download at www.pitt.edu/~rbrandom )
Outstanding choice of a thumbnail here.
Just want to say thank you prof Brandom for uploading all these videos, means a world to be able to hear your talks, I would have never imagined to be able to do so otherwise.
I like how Professor Brandom turns Kant's normative intentionality into a story while Kant did not make it into a story but just a concept. We are lucky to come later than some philosophers because it gives us the opportunity to weave rich histories about them and their concepts like Brandom does here.
I am wondering about the contrast between Hegel's rational recollecting with Emerson's "there is no history, only biography.". It seems that Hegel's idea of history is how the Self understands itself, whereas Emerson's gives rise to Self-reliance.
When Brandom brought up Meno and Absolute Knowledge, it made me wonder about the relationship between History and Geometry, and what Hegel would have made of it.
Thanks all! It was a very good video.
Great to see you the "informal" space!
Thumbnail is incredible, Bob.
Luminous !
48:45 Karen Ng, Hegel’s Concept of Life
Life is a matter of biochemistry. This science didn't even exist in Hegel's time. You gotta be kidding
Maybe a stupid question, but is Nandi Theunissen in "some way" to related to Michael Theunissen?
I have always wanted to know but always been embarrassed to ask
The center of Kant's philosophy is not "normativity," it's reverence.
Maybe it would make you feel a little better about it to read Brandoms introduction. He makes pretty clear that his(brandoms) view is a highly specific reading which ignores a bunch if things Kant felt was important. Brandom really is aware that he is offering a narrow reading, he just thinks it's a fruitful offering.
23:00
Control is the game.
rajiv is annoying
Language isn't a social institution anymore than is bipedalism.
Prima facie I want to say this is absurd; but can you say more-give us an argument for this claim?
Probably both are empirical hypotheses but we couldn't turn an experiment to disprove either assertion. Looks like Everett's study of the Amazonian tribe that is supposedly the big counterexample to innate grammar is suspect. Specific languages are social constructs but language is not
@@edwardj3070interesting. So you are saying there is no such thing as language as such. But bradom clearly has a demarcation that downtown of language games is giving and asking for reasons.it is a paradigmatic claim rather than an empirical one.
@@edwardj3070Also i don't see a reason why we should limit our theoretical models to the semantics of observed language.
@@ReflectiveJourney no I meant that thinking in a representational manner is by now as innate for human beings as bipedalism. If you raised a child in isolation from spoken language, she would be observed to invent her own. Just as she would get up and walk in her own even without seeing others doing it. Just to talk to herself as we all do incessantly. As in the Jodie Foster film, " Nell". Or so it seems
(Sorry, not a philosophy student but the issues appear to be of concern to everyone)