Argument thread!

[StormSurge]

hm...
what's your view on capital punishment?

Capital Punishment... I think it's dependant on the crime.

[TheEclipse]

ahh...
when do you think capital punishment is acceptable?

[StormSurge]

In cases of murder, pedophilia, torture. Etc.

[TheEclipse]

ah forget that then

[Conrad_Jalowski]

Okay, StormSurge.

Regarding 19th-Century Aesthetic Theory:

I argue that the period of German Idealism consisting of Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Schelling, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; the Period of Storm und Drang and Weimar Classicism of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller; as well as Gotthold Ephraim Lessing were periods of transition between Enlightenment thought/theory and Analytic/Modernist thought of the 20th-Century. In essence, I maintain that 19th-Century aesthetic theory was an attempt to break free from the rigidity and regulations of Neo-Classical and Enlightenment thought; the writings of Racine, Moliere, Corneille [Neo-Classicists] as well as those of Claude Adrien Helvetius, Diderot, Hume, Berkeley, Voltaire [Enlightenment thinkers] differed in terminology, viewpoint and purpose from the works of Schiller, Hegel, Goethe, etc.

Examples of subtopics regarding the particular argument:

1) Hegel's concept of the term sublation.

2) Concepts of Immanence and Transcendence.

3) Hegel's Master/Slave Dialectic.

4) The dichotomy between Rationalism and Empiricism.

5) Schiller's dichotomy of Nature and Reason.

6) Lessing's concept of Aristotelian mimesis.

7) Hegel's concepts on the History of Philosophy.

8) Hegel's concepts on the Philosophy of History.

9) The differences between objective and subjective thought.

10) The concept of Hegel's Absolute Ideal.

11) Goethe's concept of the Wertherian tragic figure in his "The Sorrows of Young Werther".

12) Schiller's concept of apolaustics, its relation to aesthetic theory and human nature; its relation to Realist thought such as Hobbesian theory.

[Schatten]

Sweet Jesus...

[Edu]

Sweet Jesus...

It's not that difficult a subject if you've got a bit of time to read in on the subject.

For instance, Conrad, would you agree that the German Idealism could also be described as a struggle against subjectivism?

[Schatten]

It's not that difficult a subject if you've got a bit of time to read in on the subject.

For instance, Conrad, would you agree that the German Idealism could also be described as a struggle against subjectivism?

Yeah, 'cus I defiantly had to time to read up on German Idealism in the 10 seconds in between when I read Conrad comments and right before I posted my own...I much prefer the subject of the Nazi "death" camps anyway.
"Man's Search For Meaning" Great book.

[StormSurge]

I see you down there Conrad... you know I can't stand up to you in an argument...

I refer you to my previous post. And I stand corrected.

I can't even start an argument against you...

[Edu]

Yeah, 'cus I defiantly had to time to read up on German Idealism in the 10 seconds in between when I read Conrad comments and right before I posted my own...I much prefer the subject of the Nazi "death" camps anyway.
"Man's Search For Meaning" Great book.

No point of critisism towards you. I never meant to say that in 10 seconds you could read in.

Interesting way of putting " " around death, why did you put them there?