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Project

How can the radical Enlightenment be actualized without losing its radical character? Fichte's "radical Enlightenment" and its significance for the contemporary philosophical debate about individual freedom, tolerance and pluralism.
Code
3E000109
Duration
01 October 2009 → 30 September 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Theory and methodology of philosophy
    • Philosophy
    • Ethics
    • Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified
Keywords
transcendental Philosophy tolerance radical Enlightenment pluralism
 
Project description

This project examines the historic conceptual conditions of possibility for a new concept of "radical Enlightenment" which, unlike the traditional view and the most recent researches on the Enlightenment, can a)also include enlightened philosophies with a religious dimension, and b) contribute to a critical view of the contemporary debate about the relations between individuals, society/ societies and State.