Sebastian Rödl
Biographic Data
| ID | 1104279 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sebastian Rödl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sebastian |
| FAMILY NAME | Rödl |
| SIGNATURE | RÖDL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leipzig University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8273-1397 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On the Same Ground in advance
In her essay “A Kantian Argument for the Formula of Humanity,” Patricia Kitcher discusses an obstacle that stands in the way of our comprehending the formula of humanity of the moral law, acccording to which the law demands that I use humanity, in my own person as well as in that of any other, never merely as a means, but always also as an end. The obstacle resides in our lacking an answer to the question why I would, of necessity, comprehend ano…
In Defence of ‘In Defence of Modesty’, and Against the Primacy of Metaphysics
Metaphysics is the science of what is as such. And what is is the formal object of thought; it is what is thought as such. Hence metaphysics, the science of being, is the self-clarification of thought. The original moment of metaphysics is Parmenides’ pronouncement that being and thinking are the same: ‘τὸ γὰρ αὐτὸ νοεῖν ἐστίν τε καὶ εἶναι’. The moment is recaptured when Hegel writes that, in the idea of being, thought embraces itself in its abso…
Acting from knowledge
This essay explores the idea of acting from knowledge. This idea is a thought of ourselves: the distinctive way in which we act, in which we live, resides in this, that our actions, our life, may rest on knowledge. Yet the idea of action resting on knowledge is puzzling, even mysterious. The difficulty springs from the character of judgment that is knowledge: its objectivity. The objectivity of a judgment is a character of its validity: it is obj…
I think – Mrs. Smith thinks
It has been recognized that ‘I think a is F’, considered as a predicative statement, is peculiar. The peculiarity comes out in Moore’s paradox, ‘a is F, but I do not think it is’. This statement appears afflicted by an inner tension. But if the logical form of ‘I think a is F’ is that of a predicative statement, then it is hard to discern a tension in what is said. The correlative statement ‘Mrs. Smith thinks a is F’ appears to be free from pecul…
Reason in Nature
Freedom as right
I want to expound the fundamental thought of Fichte's Grundlage des Naturrechts : a freely acting individual is her relation to every other freely acting individual. Their relation is this: they know each other to be free. This knowledge is practical, that is, it is activity, and it is a relation, that is, they who are so related act one toward the other. This knowledge, this activity, this relation, which the free individual is, is the relation …
The force and the content of judgment
This essay explores what it means to reject Frege's distinction of force and content: the rejection completes Frege's anti‐psychologism as it leaves no space for a psychological concept of judgment distinct from the logical concept, which is the concern of no empirical science, but of logic. It emerges that logic, as the science of judgement, is — not a metaphysics of judgement, but — metaphysics. And it emerges that the opposition of subject to …
Teaching, Freedom and the Human Individual
The essay represents teaching as the coming to be of the human individual. In order to do so, it reflects on the character of human life by which it is knowledge of itself. Being knowledge of itself, human life is self-determining or free. Therefore generality and particularity come together in the human being in a distinctive way: a human being is not an exemplar, instance or specimen of a species, nature or life-form. Rather, she is her own pri…
Logic, Being and Nothing
The first part of this essay develops the idea of logic as the science of thought, articulating, and thus being, the self-consciousness of thought. It explains that logic, so understood, is nothing other than metaphysics, the science of what is in so far as it is. Self-consciousness, then, thought itself, is not empty, but the source of all content. The second part of the essay discusses the opening paragraphs of Hegel’s Science of Logic ; it sho…
Freiheit als Recht
The 4th edition of the first volume of this work provides an update of the commentary on the preamble and articles 1 to 19 in case law and literature. The structure of the book has been retained and its content supplemented by more recent developments, such as the implications of Europeanisation and digitalisation as well as the Corona pandemic. As of the 4th edition, Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf has taken over the editorship of the commentary.
Education and Autonomy
Journal Article Education and Autonomy Get access Sebastian Rödl Sebastian Rödl Correspondence: Sebastian Rödl, Universität Leipzig, Institut für Philosophie, Beethovenstraße 15, 04107 Leipzig, Germany. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 50, Issue 1, February 2016, Pages 84–97, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12175 Published: 2…
The Single Act of Combining
Das Erbe der Philosophen
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Self-conciousness
Transcendental deduction of predicative structure in Kant and Brandom
Fregean predicates applied to Fregean objects are merely defined by a ‘timeless’ deductive order of sentences. They cannot provide sufficient structure in order to explain how names can refer to objects of intuition and how predicates can express properties of substances that change in time. Therefore, the accounts of Wilson and Quine, Prior and Brandom for temporal judgments fail — and a new reconstruction of Kant’s transcendental logic, especia…
Education and Autonomy
Journal Article Education and Autonomy Get access Sebastian Rödl Sebastian Rödl Correspondence: Sebastian Rödl, Universität Leipzig, Institut für Philosophie, Beethovenstraße 15, 04107 Leipzig, Germany. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 50, Issue 1, February 2016, Pages 84–97, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12175 Published: 2…
Teaching, Freedom and the Human Individual
The essay represents teaching as the coming to be of the human individual. In order to do so, it reflects on the character of human life by which it is knowledge of itself. Being knowledge of itself, human life is self-determining or free. Therefore generality and particularity come together in the human being in a distinctive way: a human being is not an exemplar, instance or specimen of a species, nature or life-form. Rather, she is her own pri…
The Single Act of Combining
Transcendental deduction of predicative structure in Kant and Brandom
Fregean predicates applied to Fregean objects are merely defined by a ‘timeless’ deductive order of sentences. They cannot provide sufficient structure in order to explain how names can refer to objects of intuition and how predicates can express properties of substances that change in time. Therefore, the accounts of Wilson and Quine, Prior and Brandom for temporal judgments fail — and a new reconstruction of Kant’s transcendental logic, especia…
Das Erbe der Philosophen
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Self-conciousness
The Single Act of Combining
Education and Autonomy
Journal Article Education and Autonomy Get access Sebastian Rödl Sebastian Rödl Correspondence: Sebastian Rödl, Universität Leipzig, Institut für Philosophie, Beethovenstraße 15, 04107 Leipzig, Germany. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 50, Issue 1, February 2016, Pages 84–97, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12175 Published: 2…
Freiheit als Recht
The 4th edition of the first volume of this work provides an update of the commentary on the preamble and articles 1 to 19 in case law and literature. The structure of the book has been retained and its content supplemented by more recent developments, such as the implications of Europeanisation and digitalisation as well as the Corona pandemic. As of the 4th edition, Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf has taken over the editorship of the commentary.
Logic, Being and Nothing
The first part of this essay develops the idea of logic as the science of thought, articulating, and thus being, the self-consciousness of thought. It explains that logic, so understood, is nothing other than metaphysics, the science of what is in so far as it is. Self-consciousness, then, thought itself, is not empty, but the source of all content. The second part of the essay discusses the opening paragraphs of Hegel’s Science of Logic ; it sho…
The force and the content of judgment
This essay explores what it means to reject Frege's distinction of force and content: the rejection completes Frege's anti‐psychologism as it leaves no space for a psychological concept of judgment distinct from the logical concept, which is the concern of no empirical science, but of logic. It emerges that logic, as the science of judgement, is — not a metaphysics of judgement, but — metaphysics. And it emerges that the opposition of subject to …
Teaching, Freedom and the Human Individual
The essay represents teaching as the coming to be of the human individual. In order to do so, it reflects on the character of human life by which it is knowledge of itself. Being knowledge of itself, human life is self-determining or free. Therefore generality and particularity come together in the human being in a distinctive way: a human being is not an exemplar, instance or specimen of a species, nature or life-form. Rather, she is her own pri…
Freedom as right
I want to expound the fundamental thought of Fichte's Grundlage des Naturrechts : a freely acting individual is her relation to every other freely acting individual. Their relation is this: they know each other to be free. This knowledge is practical, that is, it is activity, and it is a relation, that is, they who are so related act one toward the other. This knowledge, this activity, this relation, which the free individual is, is the relation …
Reason in Nature
Acting from knowledge
This essay explores the idea of acting from knowledge. This idea is a thought of ourselves: the distinctive way in which we act, in which we live, resides in this, that our actions, our life, may rest on knowledge. Yet the idea of action resting on knowledge is puzzling, even mysterious. The difficulty springs from the character of judgment that is knowledge: its objectivity. The objectivity of a judgment is a character of its validity: it is obj…
I think – Mrs. Smith thinks
It has been recognized that ‘I think a is F’, considered as a predicative statement, is peculiar. The peculiarity comes out in Moore’s paradox, ‘a is F, but I do not think it is’. This statement appears afflicted by an inner tension. But if the logical form of ‘I think a is F’ is that of a predicative statement, then it is hard to discern a tension in what is said. The correlative statement ‘Mrs. Smith thinks a is F’ appears to be free from pecul…
In Defence of ‘In Defence of Modesty’, and Against the Primacy of Metaphysics
Metaphysics is the science of what is as such. And what is is the formal object of thought; it is what is thought as such. Hence metaphysics, the science of being, is the self-clarification of thought. The original moment of metaphysics is Parmenides’ pronouncement that being and thinking are the same: ‘τὸ γὰρ αὐτὸ νοεῖν ἐστίν τε καὶ εἶναι’. The moment is recaptured when Hegel writes that, in the idea of being, thought embraces itself in its abso…
On the Same Ground in advance
In her essay “A Kantian Argument for the Formula of Humanity,” Patricia Kitcher discusses an obstacle that stands in the way of our comprehending the formula of humanity of the moral law, acccording to which the law demands that I use humanity, in my own person as well as in that of any other, never merely as a means, but always also as an end. The obstacle resides in our lacking an answer to the question why I would, of necessity, comprehend ano…
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