Formal Transcendental And Dialectical Thinking

Author : Errol E. Harris
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438405855
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Formal, Transcendental, and Dialectical Thinking written by Errol E. Harris and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1987-07-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a critical examination of the three types of logic advocated by current philosophical schools. Harris shows that certain basic presuppositions underlying the techniques of symbolic logic have resulted in intellectual stultification, moral dilemma, and practical sterility. These presuppositions are shown to be at variance with those of contemporary scientific method. Critical consideration is given to alternatives, and a more appropriate logic of science is proposed, providing an escape from crippling relativism and promising objective validation of value judgments. This approach offers some prospect of solutions to the major problems now troubling our civilization.

Author : Errol E. Harris
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887064296
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Formal, Transcendental, and Dialectical Thinking written by Errol E. Harris and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a critical examination of the three types of logic advocated by current philosophical schools. Harris shows that certain basic presuppositions underlying the techniques of symbolic logic have resulted in intellectual stultification, moral dilemma, and practical sterility. These presuppositions are shown to be at variance with those of contemporary scientific method. Critical consideration is given to alternatives, and a more appropriate logic of science is proposed, providing an escape from crippling relativism and promising objective validation of value judgments. This approach offers some prospect of solutions to the major problems now troubling our civilization.

Author : Tommi Juhani Hanhijärvi
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1628941251
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialectical Thinking written by Tommi Juhani Hanhijärvi and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the reader to dialectical reasoning, a kind of thinking found in ancient East Asia and Greece as well as modern Europe and elsewhere in the contemporary world. Here, we focus on Zeno, Socrates, Kant, and Marx, with appendices on Karl Popper and the Frankfurt School. Studying these sources from different regions and periods, we see that the thinking is essentially the same. A similar formal pattern recurs: dialectical thought is always oppositional and self-relational. This book is written in the belief that dialectical thought is understandable and relevant to many kinds of persons. One does need to have a degree in philosophy to be moved by the great dialecticians. One may even be a dialectician without academic training.

Author : Constantin V. Boundas
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231142021
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Columbia Companion to Twentieth-century Philosophies written by Constantin V. Boundas and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Columbia Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophies is the first guide to cover both the Anglo-American analytic and European Continental traditions. The first section features Nicholas Rescher writing on neoidealism, Josephine Donovan commenting on feminist philosophy, Tyler Burge discussing the philosophy of language and mind, and Robert Hanna reflecting on Kant's legacy. The second section presents Jean Grondin on hermeneutics, Leonard Lawlor on phenomenology, Charles Scott on postmodernism, and Babette Babich on the philosophy of science. The volume also covers logical positivism, naturalism, pragmatism, aesthetics, existentialism, Marxism, the Frankfurt School, structuralism, psychoanalysis, political philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of religion. The final section addresses concurrent trends in Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and African philosophy, and a comprehensive introduction by Constantin V. Boundas not only provides a thorough outline of the problems and issues of the analytic and Continental traditions but also boldly challenges the conviction that the two approaches must be rivals. Offering an unusually panoramic perspective, the Columbia Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophies enables readers to encounter foundational materials on their own terms.

Author : Marco Sgarbi
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438459971
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant and Aristotle written by Marco Sgarbi and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical and philosophical reassessment of the impact of Aristotle and early-modern Aristotelianism on the development of Kant’s transcendental philosophy. Kant and Aristotle reassesses the prevailing understanding of Kant as an anti-Aristotelian philosopher. Taking epistemology, logic, and methodology to be the key disciplines through which Kant’s transcendental philosophy stood as an independent form of philosophy, Marco Sgarbi shows that Kant drew important elements of his logic and metaphysical doctrines from Aristotelian ideas that were absent in other philosophical traditions, such as the distinction of matter and form of knowledge, the division of transcendental logic into analytic and dialectic, the theory of categories and schema, and the methodological issues of the architectonic. Drawing from unpublished documents including lectures, catalogues, academic programs, and the Aristotelian-Scholastic handbooks that were officially adopted at Königsberg University where Kant taught, Sgarbi further demonstrates the historical and philosophical importance of Aristotle and Aristotelianism to these disciplines from the late sixteenth century to the first half of the eighteenth century.

Author : James Schofield
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030650294
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Phenomenological Revision of E. E. Harris's Dialectical Holism written by James Schofield and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this work is to critically assess Errol E. Harris’s process philosophy in the face of contemporary research in the special sciences. Harris devoted his life to grappling with the big questions concerning the relationships between nature, mind, and knowledge. His 70-plus year career was distinguished, his texts on the history of philosophy, philosophy of science, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, and consciousness were widely published, and yet his metaphysics has until now remained excluded from mainstream discussions. This book’s contention is that Harris’s work reveals as yet unnoticed connections between theories in numerous scientific disciplines ranging from psychology to cosmology and that an examination of certain theories within these disciplines may serve to strengthen his original arguments. This work maintains that the resulting metaphysics frames a transdisciplinary paradigm shift and provides a viable solution to the hard problem of consciousness.

Author : Jacob E. Van Vleet
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1451470398
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialectical Theology and Jacques Ellul written by Jacob E. Van Vleet and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the work of Jacques Ellul is frequently misread on account of inattention to the theological underpinning that governs Ellul's thought. This book offers an introduction to Ellul's thought, his contribution to theology and philosophy, and how his philosophy of technology is both theologically informed and culturally relevant.

Author : Howard P. Kainz
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271004990
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paradox, Dialectic, and System written by Howard P. Kainz and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book undertakes a critical analysis of some central problems in Hegel scholarship. It is concerned with clarifying the theoretical underpinnings of paradox, the possible relationship of paradox to a dialectic logic, and the possibilities of systematization of dialectic and/or paradox. The author begins with a discussion of current attitudes toward paradox in mathematics, science, and logic, and then moves gradually toward a differentiation of philosophical paradox in the strict sense from literary, religious, and logic paradox. The relationship of dialect to paradox is elucidated by means of a phenomenological analysis of self-consciousness. Finally, possible approaches to the systematization of dialectic are considered. Analyzing and evaluating Hegel's dialectical-paradoxical system in particular, Dr. Kainz also addresses the question of viable alternatives to Hegel's approach. While paradox is generally considered by philosophers and logicians as something to be avoided, Kainz's study investigates the possibility that it is an important and even indispensable element of constructive thinking in philosophy as well as other disciplines. Paradox, Dialect, and System is this a contribution not only to Hegel scholarship but to philosophy itself. It will be of particular interest to this concerned with the differentiation of dialectical and nondialectical philosophical systems and with the prevalence of paradox in literature, religion, and contemporary physics.

Author : Nectarios G. Limnatis
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441131434
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dimensions of Hegel's Dialectic written by Nectarios G. Limnatis and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dimensions of Hegel's Dialectic examines the epistemological import of Hegelian dialectic in the widest sense. In modern philosophy, German idealism, Hegel in particular, is said to have made significant innovative steps in redefining the meaning, scope and use of dialectic. Indeed, it is dialectic that makes up the very core of Hegel's position, yet it is an area of his thought that is widely neglected by the available literature despite the increased interest in Hegel's philosophy in recent years. This book brings together an international team of expert contributors in a long-overdue discussion of Hegelian dialectic. Twelve specially commissioned essays address the task of making sense and use of Hegel's dialectic, which is fundamental not only for historical and hermeneutic reasons, but also for pragmatic ones; a satisfactory response to this challenge has the power to clarify Hegel's legacy in the current debate. The essays situate the dialectic in the context of German idealism with a clear-sighted elucidation of the problems that Hegel's dialectic is called upon to solve.

Author : Anthony E. Mansueto
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351763733
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowing God written by Anthony E. Mansueto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002. Knowing God presents an innovative analysis of one of the most difficult and intractable philosophical questions of the past 350 years: the problem of knowledge, and specifically knowledge of God and the transcendental principles of value. This book situates the problem within the context of current social and political struggles, as well as within the contemporary search for meaning and value. Mansueto revisits ancient debates regarding the agent intellect, intentional being, and connatural knowledge, while drawing on recent discussions in neuropsychology (Luria and Damasio), cognitive development theory (Piaget and Luria), and the sociology of knowledge or "ideological criticism" (especially Durkheim, Lukacs, and Gramsci). Including a chapter on forms of religious knowledge and concluding with a ’guide for the perplexed’ intended to help overcome nihilism and despair, Knowing God reconciles epistemological and metaphysical realism with a recognition of the role of social structure in shaping knowledge.