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Introduction: The Problem of a Philosophical Rendering of Nature and Hegel’s Philosophy of the Real 导论:自然的哲学阐释问题与黑格尔的实在哲学

The Problem of Nature in Hegel's Final System Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435536.003.0001

Wes Furlotte

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Assimilation and the Problems of Sex, Violence, and Sickness unto Death 同化与性、暴力、疾病至死的问题

The Problem of Nature in Hegel's Final System Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435536.003.0005

Wes Furlotte

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Crime, the Negation of Right, and the Problem of European Colonial Consciousness 犯罪、权利的否定与欧洲殖民意识问题

The Problem of Nature in Hegel's Final System Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435536.003.0012

Wes Furlotte

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The Instability of Space-Time and the Contingency of Necessity 时空的不稳定性与必然性的偶然性

The Problem of Nature in Hegel's Final System Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435536.003.0003

Wes Furlotte

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The Problem of Nature’s Spurious Infinite within the Register of Animal Life 动物生命登记册中自然虚假无限的问题

The Problem of Nature in Hegel's Final System Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435536.003.0004

Wes Furlotte

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Treatment as (re-)Habituation: From Psychopathology to (re-)Actualised Subjectivity 作为(再)习惯化的治疗:从精神病理学到(再)实现的主体性

The Problem of Nature in Hegel's Final System Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435536.003.0009

Wes Furlotte

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An Introduction to the Problem of Surplus Repressive Punishment 过度压迫性刑罚问题导论

The Problem of Nature in Hegel's Final System Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435536.003.0010

Wes Furlotte

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The ‘Non-Whole’ of Hegelian Nature: Extrinsicality and the Problems of Sickness and Death 黑格尔自然的“非整体”:外在性和疾病与死亡的问题

The Problem of Nature in Hegel's Final System Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435536.003.0002

Wes Furlotte

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Embodiment: Spirit, Material– Maternal Dependence, and the Problem of the in utero 体现:精神，物质-母亲的依赖，和子宫内的问题

The Problem of Nature in Hegel's Final System Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435536.003.0007

Wes Furlotte

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Conclusion: Freedom within Two Natures, or, the Nature–Spirit Dialectic in the Final System 结语:两性中的自由，或终极系统中的自然-精神辩证法

The Problem of Nature in Hegel's Final System Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435536.003.0014

Wes Furlotte

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