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Intersubjectivity and objectivity in Adam Smith and Edmund Husserl : a collection of essays /

Can we have objective knowledge of the world? Can we understand what is morally right or wrong? Yes, to some extent. This is the answer given by Adam Smith and Edmund Husserl. Both rejected David Hume's skeptical account of what we can hope to understand. But they held his empirical method in h...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Fricke, Christel, Føllesdal, Dagfinn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2012.
Series:Philosophische Forschung (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Bd. 8.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Introduction; 1. A Phenomenological Approach to Intersubjectivity in the Sciences; 2. Husserl's Approaches to Volitional Consciousness; 3. "We-Subjectivity": Husserl on Community and Communal Constitution; 4. Husserl on Understanding Persons; 5. Imagination and Appresentation, Sympathy and Empathy in Smith and Husserl; 6. Mengzi (Mencius), Adam Smith and Edmund Husserl on Sympathy and Conscience; 7. Overcoming Disagreement
  • Adam Smith and Edmund Husserl on Strategies of Justifying Descriptive and Evaluative Judgments.
  • 8. Intersubjectivity and Moral Judgment in Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments9. Sympathy in Hume and Smith: A Contrast, Critique, and Reconstruction; Contributors.