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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Tác giả chính: Amélie Oksenberg Rorty
Ngôn ngữ:Undetermined
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Được phát hành: Oxford ; New York Oxford University Press 2003
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Tóm tắt: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
Mô tả vật lý:xxix, 512 p.
26 cm
số ISBN:0195134028
978-0195134025