Discovering the Mind, Vol 1: Goethe, Kant, and Hegel by Walter Kaufmann

By Walter Kaufmann

This immensely readable and soaking up ebook - the 1st of a three-volume sequence on realizing the human brain - concentrates on 3 significant figures who've replaced our photograph of humans. Kaufmann significantly revises conventional conceptions of Goethe, Kant, and Hegel, displaying how their principles concerning the brain have been formed via their very own exact mentalities.

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But that means that we can dispense with the concept of mind as an entity. Mind becomes an inclusive term for feeling and intelligence, reason and emotion, perception and will, thought and unconscious. Ifwe see things that way, does it make any sense to speak of discovering the mind? It does, as a kind of shorthand. " Kant, who tried to give us an anatomy of the mind, lacked a term for that of which sensibility, understanding, reason, the inclinations, and the power of judgment were supposed to be parts.

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