Sebastian Rödl (born 1967) is a German philosopher and professor of practical philosophy at the

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. From 2005 to 2012 he was professor of philosophy at the

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Biography

Rödl studied

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

musicology Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, ...

German literature German literature () comprises those literature, literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German parts of Switzerland and Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, South Tyrol in Italy ...

and

history History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt am Main () is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Hesse. Its 773,068 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the List of cities in Germany by population, fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located in the forela ...

and

Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...

, completing his doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Albrecht Wellmer. His work focuses on the

self-conscious Self-consciousness is a heightened sense of awareness of oneself. It is not to be confused with consciousness in the sense of qualia. Historically, "self-consciousness" was synonymous with "self-awareness", referring to a state of awareness tha ...

nature of human

thought In their most common sense, the terms thought and thinking refer to cognitive processes that can happen independently of sensory stimulation. Their most paradigmatic forms are judging, reasoning, concept formation, problem solving, and de ...

and

action Action may refer to: * Action (philosophy), something which is done by a person * Action principles the heart of fundamental physics * Action (narrative), a literary mode * Action fiction, a type of genre fiction * Action game, a genre of video gam ...

. His main influence is

Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a 19th-century German idealism, German idealist. His influence extends across a wide range of topics from metaphysical issues in epistemology and ontology, to political phi ...

, and he sees himself as introducing and restating Hegel's

Absolute Idealism Absolute idealism is chiefly associated with Friedrich Schelling and G. W. F. Hegel, both of whom were German idealist philosophers in the 19th century. The label has also been attached to others such as Josiah Royce, an American philosopher wh ...

in a historical moment that is wrought with misgivings about the merits and even the mere possibility of such a philosophy.

Publications

* ''Self-Consciousness and Objectivity: An Introduction to Absolute Idealism'',

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2018. * ''Categories of the Temporal. An inquiry into the forms of the finite understanding'',

2012. * ''Self-Consciousness'', Cambridge/Mass., London: Harvard University Press 2007. * "Law as the Reality of the Free Will", in A. Speer et al. (eds.), ''The New Desire for Metaphysics'', Berlin:

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2015. * "Joint Action and Recursive Consciousness of Consciousness", ''Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences'' 14/4, 2015.

External links

Homepage Sebastian Rödl - Universität Leipzig
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