Alejandro Korn by Zachary Schowe https://padlet.com/zschowe88/Bookmarks By: Zach Schowe en-us 2022-04-06 16:18:12 UTC 2022-04-06 18:17:32 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f61d.png Alejandro Korn Background Information zschowe88 https://padlet.com/zschowe88/Bookmarks/wish/2132982446 Date of Birth: May 3rd, 1860
Date of Death:  October 9th, 1936

Location of Birth: San Vicente, Argentina 
Location of Death: La Plata, Argentina

Korn's father Carlos Korn, was a German-Prussian doctor and soldier who practiced and studied medicine. He was a decorated doctor and judge with awards for his practice of cholera epidemics. Korn was the oldest of his eight siblings, and enjoyed studying culture and sport. He would later study at Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires and the Universidad de Buenos Aires College of Medicine.  ]]> 2022-04-06 16:27:36 UTC https://padlet.com/zschowe88/Bookmarks/wish/2132982446 Philosophical works: Metaphysics zschowe88 https://padlet.com/zschowe88/Bookmarks/wish/2133023892 Korn was best known for his work with metaphysics, which is defined as, "The branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space," (Oxford Dictionary). Korn focused his metaphysical work on the more 'concrete' side such as the ability to relate reality through ones personal experience(s). Korn however, was unique in that he believed the figurative character that is metaphysics could be described as a dialectical poem. A dialectical poem is a poem that has a main “complaint". However, this complaint does not deny its complicities and contradictions. The poem also will generally leave room for possible answers to the question at hand. 

Korn said, "We cannot live without metaphysics, but we cannot convert it into a science; it should contain sincere convictions, free from dogmatism."]]> 2022-04-06 16:48:29 UTC https://padlet.com/zschowe88/Bookmarks/wish/2133023892 Most Notable Work: The Creative Freedom (1920) zschowe88 https://padlet.com/zschowe88/Bookmarks/wish/2133092597 In 1920, a group of Law Students at Korn's University of Buenos Aires published a paper in the Verbum magazine about freedom under Korn's guidance. The goal of the paper was to transform the everyday man and woman or "free subject" as Korn described them as, into the "voluntary transformation of the world."

Korn talks about justice within this piece stating, "Justice itself doesn't exist, there's only injustice and constant fight against it towards the ideal of justice." Which sounds kind of harsh but is the reality of the world we live in. He also later goes into the "dynamics of antinomies" as a reason for why humans are not apart of a experimental reality but one in which they have the freedom to control their fate. 

In an effort to explain the dynamics of freedom, Korn describes the relationship between “I” and the “subject” as "active entities", in which they (the subject) have freedom.
The subject is not a spectator in this world but a conscious, living, free being. The subject is free to feel, judge, and adjust or resist forces.

Korn later discusses the differences between present time and reality in which he says, "The idea of thing, tends to form a static and passive field, whereas present time, defined from the idea of act, tends to form dynamic processes, always changing and influenced by human decisions."

From all of this, I was able to determine freedom or free will as defined by Korn is, a understanding, that turns to an action, and later a transformation that is carried out by a free subject.

Overall I found The Creative Freedom paper to provide very beneficial information. Korn tends to agree with the core philosophical principles but just elaborates on them. 
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