Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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  • Subject of the seminar
  • Hannah Arendt: Classification of the psychic faculties
  • The " Thinking, Willing, Judging " triad
  • Arendt's two theses
    • 1) basic psychic activities cannot be derived from one another;
    • 2) they cannot be reduced to a common denominator
  • Arendt's source: Kant
  • The structure of psychic phenomena according to Arendt: the " Two-in-one
  • The difference between thinking and willing: dialogue and dissension
  • The conflict of will(velle) and no-will(nolle) as a condition of freedom
  • The nature of judgment
  • Aesthetic judgment according to Kant
  • Brentano: Psychology from an empirical point of view (1874)
  • Brentano's classification of psychic phenomena
  • The Kantian triad: " Erkennen, Fühlen, Wollen "
  • Kant's predecessors : Tetens and Mendelssohn
  • Relationship between the three fundamental psychic activities and the three Critiques
  • The Critique of Pure Reason relates to the faculty of knowledge insofar as it contains the principles of knowledge; the Critique of Judgment relates to the faculty of knowledge insofar as it contains the principles of feeling; the Critique of Practical Reason relates to the faculty of knowledge insofar as it contains the principles of desire
  • Two of Kant's theses, according to Brentano
    • 1) none of the three fundamental psychic activities (knowing, feeling, willing) can be deduced from another, or
    • 2) be reduced with them to a third as their origin
  • Radicality, imperishability, irreducibility to a third party. Justification of each thesis
  • Heterogeneity of desire and pleasure: desire is objectual; pleasure is subjective
  • Heterogeneity of desire and knowledge: desire is an aspiration to the realization of an object; knowledge takes it as it is
  • The distinction between Erkenntnisvermögen, Gefühl der Lust und Unlust and Begehrungsvermögen is the foundation of critical philosophy
  • The mediating role of the "Third Critique
  • An analogy of structure and function between feeling and judgment carries and articulates the system of critical philosophy, that of the psychic faculties and that of philosophy in general
  • Who comes after Kant?
  • Arendt's thesis: nobody
  • Elements for another "history
  • From Scottish to Austrian philosophy.