The Many Faces of Philosophy: Reflections from Plato to ArendtAmélie Oksenberg Rorty Oxford University Press, 06.02.2003 - 544 Seiten Philosophy is a dangerous profession, risking censorship, prison, even death. And no wonder: philosophers have questioned traditional pieties and threatened the established political order. Some claimed to know what was thought unknowable; others doubted what was believed to be certain. Some attacked religion in the name of science; others attacked science in the name of mystical poetry; some served tyrants; others were radical revolutionaries. This historically based collection of philosophers' reflections--the letters, journals, prefaces that reveal their hopes and hesitations, their triumphs and struggles, their deepest doubts and convictions--allow us to witness philosophical thought-in-process. It sheds light on the many--and conflicting--aims of philosophy: to express skepticism or overcome it, to support theology or attack it, to develop an ethical system or reduce it to practical politics. As their audiences differed, philosophers experimented with distinctive rhetorical strategies, writing dialogues, meditations, treatises, aphorisms. Ranging from Plato to Hannah Arendt, with contributions from 44 philosophers (Augustine, Maimonides, AlGhazali, Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, among others) this remarkable collection documents philosophers' claim that they change as well as understand the world. In her introductory essay, "Witnessing Philosophers," Amelie Rorty locates philosophers' reflections in the larger context of the many facets of their other activities and commitments. |
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... activities and commitments as political or spiritual advisers, as scientists and educators. Those self-searching meditations include materials culled from letters, prefaces, memoirs, political tracts, replies to critics. They also ...
... activities and commitments as political or spiritual advisers, as scientists and educators. Those self-searching meditations include materials culled from letters, prefaces, memoirs, political tracts, replies to critics. They also ...
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... their critical and empathic imagination, and without their collaboration in preparing biographical notes, this book would not exist. Witnessing Philosophers Philosophy has been—and been perceived as—a dangerous activity. xii Preface.
... their critical and empathic imagination, and without their collaboration in preparing biographical notes, this book would not exist. Witnessing Philosophers Philosophy has been—and been perceived as—a dangerous activity. xii Preface.
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... activity. In raising fundamental questions, examining basic assumptions, revising received views, philosophers undertook immense risks. Even when philosophers took themselves to be engaged in the constructive work of rationalizing World ...
... activity. In raising fundamental questions, examining basic assumptions, revising received views, philosophers undertook immense risks. Even when philosophers took themselves to be engaged in the constructive work of rationalizing World ...
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... activities of life. We are capable of refined discriminations: we readily distinguish the style and mentality of ... activity move to observation and perspective, surface appearances and underlying structure, signs and their meaning ...
... activities of life. We are capable of refined discriminations: we readily distinguish the style and mentality of ... activity move to observation and perspective, surface appearances and underlying structure, signs and their meaning ...
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... activities that constitute our lives. The actions and outcomes of the drama are not planned; a thoughtful motion does not always foresee its successor. We attempt to conciliate ancestors and reconcile our descendants with our ...
... activities that constitute our lives. The actions and outcomes of the drama are not planned; a thoughtful motion does not always foresee its successor. We attempt to conciliate ancestors and reconcile our descendants with our ...
Inhalt
II From Bacon to Hume | 59 |
III From Vico to Schopenhauer | 203 |
IV From Bentham to Russell | 315 |
V From Wittgenstein to Appiah | 413 |
Credits | 509 |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 28 - But when I saw that they walked not uprightly, according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews...
Seite 28 - And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have > testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
Seite 374 - When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: For it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Seite 147 - Newton, with some others of that strain ; it is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge...
Seite 81 - I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends : for I have taken all knowledge to be my province...
Seite 85 - For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to apply it well. The greatest souls are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues...
Seite 175 - It is a hard thing to suppose that right deductions from true principles should ever end in consequences which cannot be maintained or made consistent. We should believe that God has dealt more bountifully with the sons of men than to give them a strong desire for that knowledge which he had placed quite out of their reach.
Seite 342 - The chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism (that of Feuerbach included) is that the thing, reality, sensuousness, is conceived only in the form of the object or of contemplation, but not as sensuous human activity, practice, not subjectively.
Seite 342 - The question whether objective truth can be attributed to human thinking is not a question of theory but is a practical question. In practice man must prove the truth. that is, the reality and power, the this-sidedness of his thinking. The dispute over the reality or non-reality of thinking which is isolated from practice is a purely scholastic question.
Seite 342 - The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbringing, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.
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