Kyle J . Myers

Loyola Marymount University, Philosophy, Graduate Student

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Current graduate student at Holy Apostles College and Seminary. My focus is in German idealism, continental philosophy, and the history of philosophy.
Supervisors: Daniel Speak

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Boston College

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University of Guelph

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SOAS University of London

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Monash University

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University of Colorado, Boulder

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Temple University

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Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

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University of Memphis

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University of Chicago

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From Kant to Hegel: What is Self-Consciousness?

This essay will explore self-consciousness from Kant to Hegel and will ultimately show how Hegel ... more This essay will explore self-consciousness from Kant to Hegel and will ultimately show how Hegel radicalized Kant in his account of self-consciousness. My attention to Kant will turn on what is the transcendental unity of self-consciousness and specifically the phrase, “I Think” the Deduction of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding section of the first Critique. Investigation for the unity of subject and object in Kant’s philosophy is going to turn out to be taken to its logical conclusion by Hegel's conception of self-consciousness in the Phenomenology of Spirit, relying on the phrase that “Self-consciousness is Desire…”. I claim that Hegel uses this to radicalize Kant's notion of self-consciousness in his own philosophical system in the dialectic. I will first briefly attend to Kant’s system of self-consciousness as what he describes as unity.

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Reiner Schürmann and G.W.F. Hegel on Reconciliation: The ‘Double Bind’ and the Comedic liberation of Christianity

In this essay I will show how Reiner Schürmann’s conception of the double bind as ‘irreconcilable... more In this essay I will show how Reiner Schürmann’s conception of the double bind as ‘irreconcilable’ can be overcome by G.W.F. Hegel’s view that the tragic condition of being can be liberated through the dialectic into comedy. My claim that comedy fits this bill is a response to Schürmann’s more pessimistic view that we are condemned to this tragic state. As we will see in my brief summary of Sophocles’ Antigone, and Aeschylus' Agamemnon, light will be shed as to why both of these tragic dramas highlight the inscent problem of the ‘double bind’. I will then examine secondary scholarly work that has covered the position of tragedy in Schürmann’s work, and tragedy and comedy in G.W.F Hegel’s to ultimately explain the formal structure of comedy’s liberating effect. My claim is that we should see tragedy as the particular assumed into the universal, and comedy as the universal which falls into the particular. I will show how Hegel believes that comedy does that by inverting the structure of tragedy which ultimately breaks through to Christianity and into the figure of Christ. I will now move our attention to the ‘double bind’ to later explain how Hegel would respond to Schürmann’s problem of ‘irreconciliation.’

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Pursuit, Pregnancy, and Midwifery: The Dialectic of Plato's Love With Hegelian Metaphysics

G.K. Chesterton once said, “Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; ... more G.K. Chesterton once said, “Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.” The connection between the Symposium and the Phaedrus to be drawn is the topic of Love. I explain the foundation of love in both of these dialogues while also drawing from Plato's other work. Then I take Hegelian dialectics and explain subjectivity and the role of love in the the development of the philosopher.

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'I Think' Objects Of Consciousness

The grounds for my essay is to evaluate the move Kant makes against Cartesian external world skep... more The grounds for my essay is to evaluate the move Kant makes against Cartesian external world skepticism, that is, the view which posits a gap between subject and object. Kant’s project in the B deduction of the Transcendental Deduction is to close this gap by the unification of said subject and object. Kant's position is that we have the ability to construct and “experience objects'' in space and time, which is ultimately the grounds for experience, but, we have to ask the question at the same time, what is involved in the process of representing objects of experience to ourselves? Or in other words, why is it that we have an “objectivity of experience”? When objects are understood they are understood through what Kant names to be the a priori categories of the understanding. This adherence of the categories to objects of experience is necessary for subjective judgment of said objects. This ability to grasp (begreifen) is what Kant calls apperception, and in the B deduction he will call this the transcendental unity of self-consciousness. My paper turns on a line in the B deduction that reads “The I think must be able to accompany all my representations; for otherwise something would be represented in me that could not be thought at all…” (Kant, 1781, B132).The transcendental unity of apperception, or self consciousness for that matter is introduced in order for the a priori categories of the understanding to apply to objects of intuition. In order for the ability for unity of consciousness to occur there must be a subject and just as important, an object to grasp. Kant is responding to Cartesian dualism that allows for the cogito to be pure thinking, while Kant wants to show that “I” (the cogito) can ONLY think of objects in space, therefore the idea of pure thinking, or thinking without objects is absurd for the Kantian model. My paper explores what IS this transcendental unity of self-consciousness, and ultimately looks at the integral relationship between the transcendental object and the transcendental subject and why the phrase “I Think” is crucial for this unity of subject and object.

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From Kant to Hegel: What is Self-Consciousness?

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Reiner Schürmann and G.W.F. Hegel on Reconciliation: The ‘Double Bind’ and the Comedic liberation of Christianity

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Pursuit, Pregnancy, and Midwifery: The Dialectic of Plato's Love With Hegelian Metaphysics

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'I Think' Objects Of Consciousness

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