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Modernity and Plato : Two Paradigms of Rationality /
Modernity's break with the Middle Ages is distinguished by a turn to a world of individual, empirical experience, a repudiation of Plato's idea of a reality of rationality and intellect. Yet already in the Renaissance it was no longer thought necessary to confront the ""old,"...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontcover; Contents; Foreword to the English Edition; Foreword to the First Edition; Translator's Acknowledgments; Translator's Note; Translator's Introduction; Introduction; 1. Difficulties in the Definition and Self-Conception of "Modernity" and the Emergence of "Historical Thinking"; 2. The Turn toward This World and the Idealization of Nature to "Beautiful" Nature in Modern Art; 3. The Turn to Experience and the Idealization of the Individual Object to a "Well-Determined" Object in the Scientific Discourses of "Modernity"
- 4. The Turn to Experience and the Rise of the "Modern" Concept of Thought: Consciousness5. Philosophies of Consciousness and of Discrimination: The Basic Difference in Potential Strategies of Epistemological Justification in Ancient and Modern Philosophy; 6. Determinacy and Distinguishability as the Basic Philosophical Principles in Plato and Aristotle; 7. The Renaissance: Not the Rebirth of "the" Antiquity but a Revival of Hellenistic Antiquity; 8. The Structure of This Book: Part I; 9. The Structure of This Book: Part II
- Part I: Abstract Thinking versus Concrete Sensation: The Opposition between Culture and Nature in ModernityChapter 1: Do Freedom and Indeterminacy Make Man a Cultural Being? Or, Why Antiquity Seems Antiquated; 1.1 The Opposition between Self-Created Culture and Pre-Determined Nature in Man; 1.2 The Narrowing of the Concept of Rationality through the Opposition between "Sensibility" and "Reason"; Chapter 2: ""Healthy Common sense"" and the Nature/Culture Antithesis; 2.1 An Attempt at a Critique of Early Modernity's Antithesis between Nature and Culture; 2.2 The Original Sin of Rationality
- 2.3 What Is Modern about Early Modernity: Liberation from Intuition or the Dominance of the Concept?2.4 Aporias in the Relation of Intuition to Thought: From the Modern and Ancient Perspectives; 2.5 Problems of Concept-Formation and Attempted Resolutions; 2.6 The Primacy of Sensory Cognition over Thought; 2.7 Concluding Evaluation and Transition; Part II: ""Concrete Thought"" as the Precondition of a Culture of Ethics, Politics, and Economics in Plato and Aristotle; Chapter 3: The Interpretation of ""Antiquity"" from the Perspective of Modern Rationality
- Chapter 4: The Epistemological Foundations of a Philosophy of Discrimination4.1 The Principle of Non-Contradiction as the Fundamental Criterion of Rationality in Aristotle; 4.2 Rational Thought and Historical Understanding in Plato; 4.3 "Being" as an Epistemological Criterion in Plato; 4.4 Discrimination as the Fundamental Act of Thought and the System of Science in the "Liberal Arts"; Chapter 5: Abstract Consciousness versus Concrete Thought: Overcoming the Opposition between Feeling and Reason in a Philosophy of Discrimination; 5.1 Widening the Concept of Thought