01306nam a2200265Ia 4500 TVU_12864 210423s9999 xx 000 0 und d 0195134028 978-0195134025 eng 100 A104 Amélie Oksenberg Rorty The many faces of philosophy reflections from Plato to Arendt Amélie Oksenberg Rorty Oxford ; New York Oxford University Press 2003 xxix, 512 p. 26 cm 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 Philosophy Amélie Oksenberg Rorty Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh