Schleiermacher on Plato: From Form (Introduction to Plato’s Works) to Content (Outlines of a Critique of Previous Ethical Theory)
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Brill's companion to German Platonism
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Brill
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2019
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Plato was a major point of reference and important intellectual tool for numerous post-Kantian thinkers struggling to overcome Kant’s transcendental ideal ism, with its unwelcome division between the unknowable “thing in itself” and what the object is “for us” under the conditions of experience. Yet nowhere—not in Schlegel, Schelling, Humboldt, or Hegel—does Plato occupy a more central, stable, or elaborate place than in the work of Friedrich Schleiermacher.Interpreters have often spoken of Schleiermacher’s “Platonism”. While the exact implications of this general label need to be specified, it does capture the fact that Schleiermacher’s references to Plato throughout his philosophical works are numerous and usually very positive—indeed, always, when the first principles of philosophy are at stake. This is especially the case in his Discourses on Religion; his lectures on Dialectic, on Ethics, and Aesthetics; in various lectures given at the Berlin Academy; and most densely in the work I shall examine here in some detail, the Outlines of a Critique of Previous Ethical Theory (Grundlinien einer Kritik bisherigen Sittenlehre). ©The autor ©Brill
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Laks, A. (2019). Schleiermacher on Plato: From Form (Introduction to Plato’s Works) to Content (Outlines of a Critique of Previous Ethical Theory). In Brill’s Companion to German Platonism (pp. 146–164). BRILL. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004285163_008