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The active life : Miller's metaphysics of democracy /
"The ancient antagonism between the active and the contemplative lives is taken up in this examination of John William Miller's effort to forge a metaphysics of democracy. The Active Life sheds new light on Miller's actualist philosophy - its scope, its systematic character, and its d...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2005.
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| Colección: | SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The ancient antagonism between the active and the contemplative lives is taken up in this examination of John William Miller's effort to forge a metaphysics of democracy. The Active Life sheds new light on Miller's actualist philosophy - its scope, its systematic character, and its dialectical form. Michael J. McGandy sets Miller's actualism in the context of Hannah Arendt's understanding of the active life and skillfully presents actualism as a response to Whitman's challenge to craft a democratic form of metaphysics. McGandy concludes that Miller reveals how the philosophical and the political are inextricably connected, how there is no active life without the contemplative life, and that the contemplative life is founded in the active life."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 231 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-222) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423747771 9781423747772 9780791482865 0791482863 |