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| Life: Life is the state of being characterized by growth, metabolism, homeostasis, adaptation, reproduction, and response to stimuli. Living organisms are made up of cells, which are the basic units of life._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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G.W.F. Hegel on Life - Dictionary of Arguments
Gadamer I 256 Life/Self-Consciousness/Hegel/Gadamer: [Hegel had already developed] the structural correspondence between life and self-consciousness in the "Phenomenology" (...). Already in Hegel's last years in Frankfurt, the central importance of the concept of life for his philosophy can be demonstrated in the surviving manuscripts. In his "Phenomenology", the phenomenon of life makes the decisive transition from consciousness to self-consciousness - and this is indeed no artificial connection. For life and self-consciousness Gadamer I 257 really have something analogous. Life is determined by the fact that the living being distinguishes itself from the world in which it lives and with which it remains connected, and maintains itself in such a self-distinction. The self-preservation of the living happens in such a way that it includes in itself that which exists outside of it. All living things nourish themselves from what is foreign to them. The fundamental fact of being alive is assimilation. The distinction is thus at the same time a non-distinction. The foreign is appropriated. >Self-Consciousness/Hegel. Living things are not of the kind that one could ever get from the outside to see them in their liveliness. The only way to grasp liveliness is rather to become aware of it. Hegel alludes to the story of the veiled image of Sais when he describes the inner self-objectivation of life and self-consciousness: "Here the inner sees the inner"(1). 1. Hegel, Phänomenologie des Geistes, ed. Hoffmeister, S. 128_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-26