ARTICLES No
Man Is an Island: Nature and Neo-Platonic
Ethics in Hayy Ibn Yaqzān Taneli
Kukkonen
[abstract]
Religion
in Hutcheson’s Moral Philosophy James
Harris [abstract] Enlightenment
and Freedom Jonathan
Peterson [abstract] Race,
Difference, and Anthropology in Kant’s Cosmopolitanism Todd
Hedrick [abstract] Romantic
Cosmopolitanism: Novalis’s “Christianity or Europe” Pauline
Kleingeld [abstract] German Romanticism is commonly associated
with nationalism rather than cosmopolitanism. Against this standard
picture, I argue that the early German romantic author, Novalis (Georg
Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg, 1772–1801) holds a decidedly
cosmopolitan view. Novalis’s essay “Christianity or Europe” has been
the subject of much dispute and puzzlement ever since he presented it
to the Jena romantic circle in the fall of 1799. On the basis of
an account of the philosophical background of Novalis’s romanticism, I
show that the image of the Middle Ages sketched in “Christianity or
Europe” plays a symbolic role
and should not be taken as a literal description of the historical past
or as a blueprint for the future. Rather, the romantic picture of
medieval Europe serves to evoke poetically the ideal of a cosmopolitan
re-unification of humanity.
Between
Enlightenment and Romanticism: Some Problems and Challenges
in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics Kristin
Gjesdal [abstract] NOTES AND DISCUSSION Glasgow’s Conception of
Kantian Humanity Richard Dean [abstract]
