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Deconstruction is not Vegetarianism: Humanism, Subjectivity, and Animal Ethics

2025-01-09T14:28:23+03:00

Michel Serres, The Natural Contract

2025-01-09T12:57:34+03:00

Heraclitus on Change, (Cosmic) Process and Logos

2025-01-08T16:08:58+03:00

Heraclitus was one of the most prominent figures in ancient Ionian thought. This paper aims to interpret the relationship between the concepts of change, (cosmic) process, and Logos in his philosophy. Change was the primary focus of the natural philosophers of Ionia; the thinkers of Miletus and Ephesus concentrated on concepts such as nature, becoming, and change, and sought to understand the underlying principle that unifies all change. Heraclitus argued that nature is a realm of appearances and constant change, yet all change is governed by a divine principle. Nature is a continuous process of change, and Heraclitus believed change to be the ultimate reality. This paper connects Heraclitus’ ideas of change, process, and logos by proposing that not all change should be understood merely as a process.

The Critique of the Subject in Kant and Hegel

2025-01-08T17:36:23+03:00

The discussion of Kant and Hegel’s conceptions of the subject constitutes the main subject of this study. Until Kant and Hegel, some of the views of the subject in the history of philosophy will be shown in a chronologically superficial way. In order to reveal Kant’s conception of the subject, it will be discussed how the paradigm shift called the Copernican Revolution transformed the subject. This change in the perspective from which the subject is viewed will also bring about a change in knowledge. The relationship between the knowing subject and the known object is reorganized by Kant. In making this change regarding the position of the subject, Kant develops arguments against Descartes’ cogito. Since these criticisms will give us some clues to understand Kant’s views on the subject, the criticism of Descartes has an important place. Hegel, another German philosopher, finds it wrong to treat the subject in an abstract way and proposes to treat the subject in a historical way. Just like Kant’s criticism of Descartes, Hegel’s criticism of Kant will also be included since it will help us to understand Hegel’s view of the subject.