HEGNAT · Naturalism in German Classical Philosophy: Nature, Recognition and Freedom in the Hegelian Theory of Social Interaction and Cooperation
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2016-09-01 → 2019-08-31
- EU contribution
- €244,269
- Participants
- 2
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF-GF
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Results in brief
Naturalism in German Classical Philosophy: Nature, Recognition and Freedom in the Hegelian Theory of Social Interaction and Cooperation
The main topic of the project is about naturalism in Hegel's philosophy. This topic has many philosophical and interdisciplinary outcomes that we can summarize in 4 issues. Issue 1: Mind-life continuity. Impact: free will and disembodied mind Overall objectives:Mind-life continuity addresses the question if it is possible to have a disembodied mind like a mind in a computing machine and to understand the difference between autonomous thinking and thinking by virtue of external programming. It is also important for understanding the biological and natural features of the rational faculty and the difference between mechanical computation and self-conscious reflection. Issue 2: Human history as outcome of the dialectics of the human species Impact: investigation on history directionality and coherence Overall objectives: The main objective of this issue is to investigate if the human kind and its historical evolution can be defined by the self-consciousness’ disposition to place the external reality and the course of external events under an order of values and concept autonomously yielded. Issue 3: Feelings and habits Impact: The nature of human behavior Overall objectives: this issue aims to tackle the nature of the normative in Hegel’s theory of habits and to point out that social practices are the outcome of biological characteristics related to the homeostasis of the organism. This should demonstrates that habits and human practices have a concrete biological background originate from humans’s attitude to organize the environment through socially codified activities. The issue also deals with the relation habits have with self-conscious life and human world history. Issue 4: Mind-Brain Problem Impact: understanding brain processing and its relation to the human mindful, logical and linguistic disposition Overall objectives: This issue has relevant interdisciplinary aspects as it is also addressed by the cognitive and brain sciences. It deals with the question concerning the cerebral processing as it can observed by modern devices and its consistency with conventional linguistic practices and logical and formal principles of inferring concepts and principles of thinking.
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Project objective
Hegel's theory of social interaction, recognition and freedom supplies us with a very perspicuous conception of cooperation and social organization by which the individual is understood as freely embedded in an institutionalized context of cooperation and self-identification. Sociality is explained as emerging from natural prerequisites of human beings and as counterpart of nature. The main target of this research is to investigate Hegel's theory of society by considering the relation he establishes with the natural prerequisites of individual human beings. In fact, individual cognitive capacities and shared practices are the outcome of the unfolding of an interpersonal substance called spirit determining the role of the individual in the social space. The notion of spirit is introduced by Hegel as both emerging and different from nature. As the nature of an animal is characterized by its autonomous interaction with the environment, so the nature of a rational being is characterized from a peculiar form of interaction, i.e. the reflexion on its own natural substratum. This speculative attitude is the premise for defining the ideal of freedom, whose achievement is the final end for human beings. This programme aims to investigate the mutual dependence between nature and spirit by updating Hegelian readings and by promoting the interdisciplinary dialogue with other fields of knowledge investigating the human cognitive dispositions. In order to achieve these objectives the ER will undertake an outgoing phase in the US under the supervision of a leading Hegelian. During the fellowship he will be also seconded to the Max Planck institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. This secondment aims to improve the exchange and the dialogue between different disciplines and to enhance the ER’s capacities to manage intersectional projects of research. The ER will also organize two international conferences, edit a collection of essays and publish a book.
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Participants
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PARMA · PARMACoordinatorItaly
- GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY NON PROFIT CORPORATION · Washington DcUnited States
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