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On the Life & Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer with Professor Sebastian Luft (Paderborn University). The Following video is a continuation of my series on Classical German Philosophy and Post-Kantian Thought. The title of today's episode is On the Life & Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer with Professor Sebastian Luft (Paderborn University).


This episode explores central issues surrounding The Marburg School, Neo-Kantianism, Hermann Cohen, Paul Natorp, Martin Heidegger, and delves deep into Ernst Cassirer's philosophy.


Professor Luft also discusses Cassirer's main philosophical influences, and talks about the 1929 Davos debate between Cassirer and Heidegger. Andl lastly, Professor Luft gives an in-depth analysis of Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms.

Professor Luft does a brilliant job of navigating the viewer through these complex philosophical, and cultural concepts giving the viewer deep insight into the life and thought Cassirer. This video is key for any student, scholar or enthusiast of philosophy and the humanities.


Dr. Sebastian Luft is a Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at University of Paderborn (Germany) Before teaching at Paderborn he was a Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University from 2004 to 2023. Professor Luft’s research interests are: Metaphysics, Epistemology, History of Western Philosophy, Phenomenology and Consciousness, 19th-century German Philosophy, Including Husserl, Cassirer.

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Philosophy Friends and Colleagues: I am so excited to share my most recent episode of The Young Idealist Series On Classical German Philosophy and Post-Kantian Thought.

The title of today's episode is Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory, with Distinguished Prof. of German, Dr. Rolf Goebel, UAH.

The following episode explores Adorno's views on the autonomy of art, beautiful semblance, & the historical unfolding of meaning.

Dr. Rolf Goebel does a brilliant job of navigating the viewer through these complex philosophical, Aesthetic concepts giving the viewer deep insight into music, art and philosophy. This video is key for any student, scholar or enthusiast of the humanities.

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It is my great honor to share with you all the inspiration behind Sean J. McGrath's new book, titled: The Lost Road: A Search for the Soul in the West.
Dr. McGrath's substack post goes deep into his own personal journey as a philosopher and gives the reader a taste of what we all can expect from this forthcoming work.
Sean has been my greatest mentor, and one of my greatest teachers from a distance, through his scholarlily work I have learned to develop my own voice and to slowly become a keen reader of Schelling, while also remembering the importance of both history and religion.
Sean's most recent work "Political Eschatology," was an outstanding text that sheds light on the history Christianity, philosophy and seeks ways to transcend both the dichotomizing positions of left and right political affiliations.
I am excited for this new work. I hope you all are too! Sean Mcgrath work has become the voice for a new generation of scholarship.
Check it out here: smcgrath.substack.com/p/the-lost-road?r=1mkoyg&utm…

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I was extremely honored to participate in youtube.com/@whyshivaay
Podcast on German Idealism. Check out this video of me discussing the origins, and background to German Idealism. And if you haven't yet, please subscribe to Why Shivaay's Podcast for more videos.

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For the last 8 to 9 years I have been intensely; reading, studying, researching, and writing, on these four pivotal, and brilliant philosophers. Of course, with Schelling it has been much longer but all four of these thinkers have changed my thinking, and how I view the world.

Each thinker adds a complex network of questions and problems, whether it is through the traditions of early phenomenology and Scholasticism, with Stein, or an in-depth study of habit and nature, with the French Spiritualism of Ravaisson.
Through Bradley, one enters a detail study of truth, appearance and the reality of the absolute. One is also thrown head-first into a dialogue with the profound tradition of British Idealism and its rich history.

And with Schelling, what can I say? His works continues to move me, and plunge me into the complexities of the universe with it's deep roots in German Idealism & German Romanticism.

This deep curiosity, and thirst for knowledge; and creativity is why we need both philosophy and the humanities.
The arts, may not be a rigorous science that studies the sub-atomic world of quantum mechanics, but in an odd sense they offers us so much more.

The Humanities and the Arts, allow us to study, our world and nature through a critical lens, and to study the enigma that is the human being. #philosophy #Humanities #thearts #education

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Philosophy Friends and Fellow Colleagues: It is my great honor to share with you all another exciting episode of The Young Idealist Series On Classical German Philosophy and Post-Kantian Thought.

This is a very special episode featuring Dr. Dalia Nassar who navigates the viewers through her exciting philosophical work and discussing important issues such as Knowledge, Aesthetics, Ethics, Nature and Ecology.
The Following video is a continuation of my series on Classical German Philosophy and Post-Kantian Thought. The title of today's episode is On The Intersection of Nature; Aesthetic Experience, & Ethics with Dr. Dalia Nassar (USYD).

In this episode of: The Young Idealist Series, I invited Dr. Dalia Nassar who is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. Her work sits at the intersection of the history of German philosophy, environmental philosophy and ethics.

As an admirer of Dr. Nassar's academic and scholarly work, I knew she would be a perfect guest to participate in this series. Dr. Nassar is the author of The Romantic Absolute: Being and Knowing in Early German Romantic Philosophy, 1795-1804, from Chicago University Press, published in 2013. Her most recent monograph, Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art, and Ecology from Herder to Humboldt (Oxford University Press, 2022) investigates the understudied tradition of romantic empiricism, highlights its significance for the development of ecology, and argues for its contemporary relevance in addressing environmental questions and concerns. By showing how the romantic empiricists deepened their understanding of nature through artistic skills and tools, Dr. Nassar also demonstrates the significance of art for knowledge, and highlights the ways in which epistemology, aesthetics, and ethics are fundamentally interdependent.

Dr. Nassar has a strong interest in the contributions of women philosophers, and in the ways in which philosophical canon formation has sidelined them. She has co-edited, with Kristin Gjesdal, two volumes on women philosophers, including an anthology of primary works titled Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition, and The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition which is also co-edited with Kristin Gjesdal and was published in 2024. Dr. Nassar is a co-investigator on the SSHRC (Canada) grant, Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy. And more recently, a Future Fellowship (from the Australian Research Council) to work on under-studied / neglected women philosophers of the late Enlightenment and early Romanticism.
The following episode explores many important areas of study in Dr. Nassar's rich research; such as the Relationship between art and knowledge, aesthetics, naturphilosophie, beauty, environmental ethics, ecology and the philosophy of science.

Dr. Dalia Nassar does a brilliant job of navigating the viewer through these complex philosophical issues giving the viewer deep insight into several key philosophical issues and speaking on a wide variety of diverse thinkers like, Goethe, Schiller, Herder, Kant, Schelling, Novalis, Humboldt, Staël, Günderrode and Gerda Walther.

Key Figures brought up in this episode:

Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749).
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832).
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803).
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805).
Germaine de Staël (1766-1817).
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859).
Novalis (1772-1801).
Karoline von Günderrode (1780-1806).
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854).

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Live seminars start in just 2 days! Join an 8-week intensive course on one of German Idealism's most daring texts!

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Dear friends,

The philosophy platform I've been working on has a new teacher, Christopher Satoor and he is going to teach an in-depth course on Schelling's 1809 Freedom Essay - a very unusual and daring philosophical text! It is unusual because it is very literary and poetic in its form whilst metaphysical, religious and ethical in its content. It is a clash of many disciplines and challenges one to think beyond single dimensions. Freedom and theodicy (the problem good and evil) are here intertwined, as is the ground of existence and answering the question as to how we got here.

I'm very happy to have Chris on board for this; what promises to be an intense and exuberant tour de idea! As just told me: "All I can say is that the students who are enrolled right now are in for the time of their life!"
So if this sounds interesting to you, check out the course.
If you know a fellow or gal who might be interested, we'd really appreciate if you could spread the word 🌞

Filip Niklas.

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I am excited to announce that enrollment for my course: Schelling's Freedom Essay (Freiheitsschrift) Freedom, System And Ground has officially opened. Students, can now enroll and take part in a dynamic series that aims to investigate the ideas, concepts and thought involved in the text. The Freedom Essay represents the culmination of philosophy in German Idealism. Sign up and take part in this journey along with me. #Schelling

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Schelling and Romanticism

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