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The measure of things : humanism, humility, and mystery /

David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a 'mystery'. Other views are shown to be incompatible with our human condition. Cooper restores to philosophy a proper appreciation of mystery - that is what provides a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cooper, David E. (David Edward), 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2007.
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505 0 |a Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. 'Self-Assertion': From 'Ockhamism' to Renaissance Humanism; 3. Reason and Agency: Enlightenment, Kant, and Romanticism; 4. Prometheanism: Marx, Nietzsche, Pragmatism, and 'Reactionary Modernism'; 5. Existential Humanism; 6. Interlude: Rival Humanisms; 7. Humility; 8. The Hubris of Absolutism; 9. The Hubris of Humanism (1); 10. The Hubris of Humanism (2); 11. Mystery; 12. Emptiness; 13. Mystery, Measure, and Humility; Index. 
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