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Salle 422
2910, boulevard Édouard-Montpetit
Montréal (QC) Canada  H3T 1J7

Conférence de Nigel DeSouza, Université d'Ottawa

In the 1760s, Herder calls for philosophy to become more genuinely anthropological and he develops the rudiments of an innovative philosophical anthropology that will remain at the heart of his multi-facetted thinking for the rest of his life. Underlying the central tenets of this theory—e.g., soul-body interaction, the continuity between sensation and thought—is Herder’s concept of Kraft or force. A key feature of this concept is how it enables the mutual influence of the material and the immaterial, a feature whose origins, surprisingly, lies in Herder’s engagement with Leibniz and Kant. The objective of this paper is to shed light on these origins by showing how and why Herder could have come to a conclusion that would have been so anathema to these two thinkers and to illustrate some of its ramifications.

Cette conférence est organisée par la Table ronde en philosophie moderne de Montréal

«The concept of Kraft and the foundations of Herder’s philosophical anthropology »
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