Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0061831

Zusammenfassung

A major problem in contemporary ontology is that of explaining the nature of events. In the traditional view, events are alterations in the predicates of a subject ('tyranny' was predicated of Athens one day, then 'democracy' another). The subject is what is most real and events have only a derivative status. In its modern form, this view is sustained in theories of representation in human cognition and grounded in an account of the human subject developed by Immanuel Kant. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, other German Idealists like Maimon and Schelling critiqued Kant in way...