The many faces of philosophy reflections from Plato to Arendt

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 con...

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Hovedforfatter: Amélie Oksenberg Rorty
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English
Udgivet: Oxford ; New York Oxford University Press 2003
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Summary: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
Fysisk beskrivelse:xxix, 512 p.
26 cm
ISBN:0195134028
978-0195134025