New Century PhilosophyA&C Black, 02.08.2001 - 164 Seiten In this powerful re-examination of the purpose and direction of philosophy for the new century O'Hear engages with our most pressing questions. Is there knowledge outside of science? Does religion still have meaning and coherence today? What is beauty and why do so few contemporary artists believe in it? In making a strong case for the relevance of philosophy O'Hear presents a coherent and compelling vision for recovering wisdom in our time. |
Inhalt
Wisdom | 1 |
The Search for Meaning | 14 |
So What Then Can I Know? | 25 |
Myself and Other Persons | 33 |
Nature Society and Individual | 46 |
Science | 75 |
Aesthetics | 101 |
Religion | 124 |
Death | 146 |
Philosophy and the Promise | 154 |
Notes and References | 161 |
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account of human activity actually Alan Sokal Anaxagoras animals anthropic principle argument Aristotle aspects attitude basic beauty behaviour beliefs Big Bang biological brain C. S. Peirce cause century claims colour conception conscious contemporary culture Damien Hirst death Descartes doctrine dreaming ence everyday evolutionary existence experience explain fact feel forces genes Heidegger homosexuality individual insofar intelligence knowledge language lives look Martin Heidegger material materialistic matter means mental moral normal objective once ourselves pain particles particular perspective Phaedo philosophy physical world Plato pleasure point of view political possible primeval soup processes produce purely question rational reality reason reductive materialism religion religious scepticism scientific account scientism scientists secondary qualities seems sense sexual simply social society Socrates sort Stephen Hawking survival theist theory things thought tion traditional true truth twentieth-century ultimate undermine universe utilitarianism wisdom
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