Philosophical Investigations Contesting the End of Humanity

Richard Dien Winfield is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia, where he has taught since 1982.  He received his BA from Yale College, his MA from the University of Heidelberg, and his PhD from Yale University.  This is Winfield’s 25th book of philosophy.  Winfield ran for the US House of Representatives in 2018 and the US Senate in 2020 to represent the state of Georgia on a Job Guarantee Social Rights Agenda.

• Ch 1: Introduction.- Ch 2: Negation, Contradiction, and Hegel’s Emancipation of Truth, Right, and Beauty.- Ch 3: Reason in the History of Philosophy: How Philosophy Must Conceive its Own Development.- Ch 4: The Liberation of Philosophical Psychology: Unshackling Mind from the Dogmas Barring its True Self-Conception.- Ch 5: Language and Self-Determination.- Ch 6: Lessons of Aristotle’s Determination of Phronesis and Political Association.- Ch 7: From Practical Reason to Interaction: The Problem of Freedom in Kant, Fichte, and Schelling.- Ch 8: On Capital Punishment.- Ch 9: The Abolition of Caste, Religious Reform, and Democracy: Ambedkar’s Challenge to the Twenty-First Century.- Ch 10: The Refutation of Political Fascism.- Ch 11: Globalization and Averting Nuclear and Climate Change Armageddon.