Toward A Philosophy Of History

Author : José Ortega y Gasset
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252070457
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward a Philosophy of History written by José Ortega y Gasset and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bears the mark of Ortega's fine intelligence and his abiding faith in the redemptive power of engaged living and original thinking

Author : Michael Stanford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0631199411
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Philosophy of History written by Michael Stanford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1998-02-04 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uncovers the wealth of philosophical problems that history presents, and encourages further thought on how these issues grow out of historical questions.

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of History written by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jacques Maritain
Publisher : New York : Scribner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Philosophy of History written by Jacques Maritain and published by New York : Scribner. This book was released on 1957 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Catalin Partenie
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810122332
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heidegger and Plato written by Catalin Partenie and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-26 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Martin Heidegger the "fall" of philosophy into metaphysics begins with Plato. Thus, the relationship between the two philosophers is crucial to an understanding of Heidegger--and, perhaps, even to the whole plausibility of postmodern critiques of metaphysics. It is also, as the essays in this volume attest, highly complex, and possibly founded on a questionable understanding of Plato. As editors Catalin Partenie and Tom Rockmore remark, a simple way to describe Heidegger's reading of Plato might be to say that what began as an attempt to appropriate Plato (and through him a large portion of Western philosophy) finally ended in an estrangement from both Plato and Western philosophy. The authors of this volume consider Heidegger's thought in relation to Plato before and after the "Kehre" or turn. In doing so, they take up various central issues in Heidegger's Being and Time (1927) and thereafter, and the questions of hermeneutics, truth, and language. The result is a subtle and multifaceted reinterpretation of Heidegger's position in the tradition of philosophy, and of Plato's role in determining that position.

Author : Jill Gordon
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271039770
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turning Toward Philosophy written by Jill Gordon and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledging the powerful impact that Plato's dialogues have had on readers, Jill Gordon shows how the literary techniques Plato used function philosophically to engage readers in doing philosophy and attracting them toward the philosophical life. The picture of philosophical activity emerging from the dialogues, as thus interpreted, is a complex process involving vision, insight, and emotion basic to the human condition rather than a resort to pure reason as an escape from it. Since the literary features of Plato's writing are what draw the reader into philosophy, the book becomes an argument for the union of philosophy and literature--and against their disciplinary bifurcation--in the dialogues. Gordon construes the relationship of Plato's text to its audience as an analogue of Socrates' relationship with his interlocutors in the dialogues, seeing both as fundamentally dialectic. On this insight she builds her detailed analysis of specific literary devices in chapters on dramatic form, character development, irony, and image-making (which includes myth, metaphor, and analogy). In this way Gordon views Plato as not at all the enemy of the poets and image-makers that previous interpreters have depicted. Rather, Gordon concludes that Plato understands the power of words and images quite well. Since they, and not logico-deductive argumentation, are the appropriate means for engaging human beings, he uses them to great effect and with a sensitive understanding of human psychology, wary of their possible corrupting influences but ultimately willing to harness their power for philosophical ends.

Author : Ben-Ami Scharfstein
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791436837
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Comparative History of World Philosophy written by Ben-Ami Scharfstein and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaks through the cultural barriers between Western, Indian, and Chinese philosophy and demonstrates that despite considerable differences between these three great philosophical traditions, there are fundamental resemblances in their abstract principles.

Author : Bernard P. Dauenhauer
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820338095
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At the Nexus of Philosophy and History written by Bernard P. Dauenhauer and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between philosophy and history has long been a matter of contention. Philosophers have claimed that their pursuit of universal law and eternal verities elevated them beyond historians, who merely dabbled with the vagaries of the particular and the contingent. Historians responded with the argument that philosophy was important only in relation to its contribution to concrete, historical truth. A greater challenge for both philosophers and historians than the defense of either of these positions has been to understand the convoluted issues surrounding the intersection of their respective disciplines. In At the Nexus of Philosophy and History, Bernard P. Dauenhauer has collected eleven essays that explore the relationship between the two disciplines and provide a significant, innovative response to the problems created by such exploration. The original essays collected in this volume challenge the artificial distinctions and disciplinary parochialism that have too often characterized traditional academic debate. Instead of advancing any one elaborate theory, At the Nexus of Philosophy and History seeks to encourage a balanced approach toward the exploration of the two fields by demonstrating that a full understanding of the one is impossible without knowledge of the other.

Author : José Ortega y Gasset
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 269 pages
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Download or read book Toward a Philosophy of History written by José Ortega y Gasset and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert C. Scharff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134626738
Total Pages : 24 pages
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Download or read book How History Matters to Philosophy written by Robert C. Scharff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, widespread rejection of positivism’s notorious hostility toward the philosophical tradition has led to renewed debate about the real relationship of philosophy to its history. How History Matters to Philosophy takes a fresh look at this debate. Current discussion usually starts with the question of whether philosophy’s past should matter, but Scharff argues that the very existence of the debate itself demonstrates that it already does matter. After an introductory review of the recent literature, he develops his case in two parts. In Part One, he shows how history actually matters for even Plato’s Socrates, Descartes, and Comte, in spite of their apparent promotion of conspicuously ahistorical Platonic, Cartesian, and Positivistic ideals. In Part Two, Scharff argues that the real issue is not whether history matters; rather it is that we already have a history, a very distinctive and unavoidable inheritance, which paradoxically teaches us that history’s mattering is merely optional. Through interpretations of Dilthey, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, he describes what thinking in a historically determinate way actually involves, and he considers how to avoid the denial of this condition that our own philosophical inheritance still seems to expect of us. In a brief conclusion, Scharff explains how this book should be read as part of his own effort to acknowledge this condition rather than deny it.