Immanence

Immanence (Latin immanere, stay in it ',' stick ' ) denotes the in the things included, which results from their being. It is the antonym of transcendence. The adjective refers to an immanent inherent property of an object that is not therefore been derived by inference or interpretation.

History

Scholasticism differs immanent actions that relate to the actors, as well as transcendent, that point beyond the doer. Furthermore, means immanence:

  • In the philosophy of Spinoza's God's presence in the world as the cause of all effects
  • According to Kant, in epistemological perspective to remain within the limits of possible experience ( CPR B 352 and B 671 )
  • Schelling, Spinoza a reification of beings and thus determinism held up, the inclusion of the finite ( naturalism = immanence ) in the Absolute ( = theism transcendence ) as a condition of freedom, since everything contained in God and man is a reflection of God
  • In the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl, the sphere indubitable circumstances, nature as a transcendence in immanence of the phenomenon as
  • Karl Jaspers existence, consciousness and mind at all as the three immanent modes of the Encompassing, which form the subject
  • Gilles Deleuze the basic concept of a difference theoretical ontology, which he equated with the life

In the spirit of Spinoza wrote Goethe in 1812:

" What would a God who were pushing only from the outside / In the circle of the universe running on your finger could! / He 's seemly to move the world within, / Nature in Him, to cherish yourself in nature / So what lives in Him and weaves and is / Never His power, never misses his Spirit. "

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