Theories (soul)
Theories by Martin Seel is a book on elementary questions of philosophy that was published in 2009 and consists of 517 aphorisms .
salary
Aspects of the newer philosophy of language , analytical philosophy , epistemology , philosophy of mind , aesthetics , moral philosophy and the doctrine of virtues are dealt with. Seel makes suggestions what one should understand by a meaningful or meaningless sentence, what is meant by the holism of the mental, what the term perception can contain, why one can speak of truth or falsehood of appearances, what can determine a person what Thoughts are actually what they are and in what form they appear and how they appearIt is possible to communicate intersubjectively what drives people to act and what requires freedom of action in human existence, what forms the will can take and what the beautiful has to do with the good. Seel tries, on the one hand, to meet the scientific requirements of the subject and, on the other, to weave in biographical information, i.e. examples from his own experience. He takes further examples from the fields of cinema, jazz music and contemporary art.
shape
The 517 aphorisms do not stand or speak individually for themselves; rather, they are linked to one another by the topic they are discussing. In recurring variations of the same sub-areas and aspects of philosophy, the author engages in a game with thoughts and thus a game with thought movements and thus also a game with the reader.
reception
Theories was shortlisted for the Tractatus Essay Prize of the Philosophicum Lech in 2010 .
Quotes
“Theories are beliefs. Their number defies counting. Those who make theories are fighting a kind of war of the roses with science. "
"The word" theory "once stood for the ability to see everything and everything in one."
"Contemplation demands diversion."
“Time and again, the painter On Kawara undergoes the practice of painting a picture with the greatest care in different parts of the world on one day, which only shows the date of the day in question in an anonymous font. These images relate to nothing else and therefore to everything that was real and possible on that day. "
"Variation, especially the more fluent plural, is one of those beautiful words that show what they say."
"Keeping yourself moving, that's almost all that matters."
"One of the roots of morality is an aesthetic experience that is mostly overlooked or rashly seen theologically."
“Philosophy is precision work. No room for giant steps . Millimeter by millimeter - word for word, line by line, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, text by text - the writers work their way to an overturning of their thinking that consists of nothing other than tiny shifts. Anyone who does not enjoy this kind of infinity should cultivate coarser fields. "
“Why do the writers write? In the hope of happiness, glory, fame? Certainly. But that sends itself out, if it comes to that at all. You don't write to have written, but to be able to write. Your workload should not be fulfilled. You never want to end, you want to come to the beginning; here, in this limbo they are at home. "
Reviews
- Review at www.textem.de
- Review of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- Review on Deutschlandfunk
- Review at www.kulturbuchtipps.de
Text output
- Martin Seel: Theories. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-10-071010-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Ralf Schulte: Zen and the Art of Waiting for Discourses. In: online review. on www.textem.de.
- ↑ philosophicum.com