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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.