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History of philosophy --- filosofie --- filosofen --- Voltaire --- Leibniz, von, Gottfried W. --- Hobbes, Thomas --- Hume, David --- Spinoza, Baruch --- Locke, John --- Descartes, René
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“This ambitious study brings together three great thinkers of ancient and modern times—Husserl, Locke, and Plato—in a careful analysis of the problem of knowledge, of what the unassisted human mind can know and how it may know what it does. I know of no other work that even attempts to do what this study does so well: to bring into respectful but critical dialogue with one another these three philosophers on the question “what is knowledge?”” --Robert C. Bartlett, Behrakis Professor in Hellenic Political Studies, Boston College, USA Relativism, or the claim that it is possible that the appearances and opinions of each of us are correct for each of us, and hence that any view is as true as any other, has remained a continuing problem for philosophy and science for 2,500 years. Today, because of the widespread acceptance of relativism, the problem is greater than ever before. This book argues that Plato in fact solved this problem. In the first two chapters, by means of a study of Husserl and Locke, Davis shows that it is possible to return to and take seriously Plato’s treatment of this problem. The third chapter presents Plato’s solution to it. This book is distinctive in that it shows that a problem that has been thought to be present throughout the history of Western thought was in fact solved by Plato, and in that it shows that we can, beginning from our contemporary situation, return to Plato’s solution. Matthew K. Davis is former Dean and Director of Graduate Programs at St. John's College, Santa Fe, USA, where he has taught for twenty-five years.
Philosophy --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Politics --- filosofie --- politiek --- politieke filosofie --- Political science. --- Political science --- Philosophy, Modern. --- Philosophy. --- Political Theory. --- Political Philosophy. --- Early Modern Philosophy. --- Western Philosopy. --- Plato --- Husserl, Edmund --- Locke, John
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This book unearths Carter’s deconstruction of the male-dominated discipline of Western thought. Revealing the extensive philosophical research that underpins Carter’s intertextual work, this book offers new readings of her fiction in relation to a range of philosophical texts and ideas. By re-examining Carter’s writing with reference to the archived collection of her notes that has recently become available at the British Library, Angela Carter and Western Philosophy puts forward new interpretations of Carter’s writing practices. With chapters examining her allusions to Plato, Hobbes and Rousseau, Descartes, Locke and Hume, Wittgenstein and Ryle, as well as Kant and Sade, this book illuminates Carter’s engagement with different areas of Western thought, and discusses how this shapes her portrayal of reality, identity, civilisation, and morality. Angela Carter and Western Philosophy will be of interest to researchers, lecturers, and students working on contemporary women’s writing, philosophy and literature, and intertextual literary practices. .
Philosophy --- History of philosophy --- Linguistics --- Fiction --- English literature --- Literature --- geletterdheid --- fantasy --- filosofie --- geschiedenis --- literatuur --- Engelse literatuur --- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques --- Ryle, Gilbert --- Carter, Angela --- Kant, Hermann --- Hobbes, Thomas --- Sade, de, Donatien A.F. --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig --- Plato --- Hume, David --- Locke, John --- Descartes, René --- anno 1900-1999 --- Great Britain --- Ireland
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