HPRC School Philosophy Seminar, Hegel, Heidegger, and the 'I'. Preliminary Reflections for a New Paradigm of the Self, presented by Dr Diego Bubbio, Senior Research Fellow, University of Sydney.
Event Details
- Date:
- Friday, 28 March 2014
- Time:
- 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Room:
- Room E302 Forgan Smith Building (1)
- UQ Location:
- Forgan Smith Building (St Lucia)
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Serena Bagley
- Phone:
- 52795
- Email:
- s.bagley@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
Event Description
- Full Description:
- In a superficial sense, everybody knows what it means to be an ‘I’, in the sense that everybody has a basic practical knowledge underlying the use of that word.
However, this pragmatic structure depends on a paradigm that is not universal or immutable. The Cartesian self can be regarded as the modern paradigm of the ‘I’, one that still underlie our society, politics, and way of thinking in general. This paradigm is, however, significantly marked with subjectivism.
In this talk, I contend that both Hegel’s and Heidegger’s philosophies can be regarded as attempts to overcome Cartesian subjectivism and to by-pass traditional oppositions between subjectivist and objectivist accounts of the ‘I’. Thus, they can provide the resources to develop an alternative account of the ‘I’ more suited to face contemporary challenges.
First, I briefly consider the affirmation of the Cartesian model of the self. Then, I explore Hegel’s notion of the ‘I’, stressing how Hegel takes up Kant’s ‘I-think’ freeing Kant’s philosophy from its subjectivism. Then, I submit that Heidegger, in the 20th century, was similarly concerned with the overcoming of subjectivism, and that an analysis of his notion of mineness (Jemeinigkeit) and its development in the context of Heidegger’s thought can support this argument.
Finally, I suggest that Hegel’s and Heidegger’s analyses can be used to elaborate an alternative and more flexible model of the ‘I’, which avoids individualism, allows thinking of the formation of the self as a collective enterprise, and thus provides the conceptual resources to transform our identity without losing it.
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- St Lucia Campus | Gatton campus.
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