Arbogast Schmitt

Modernity and Plato

Two Paradigms of Rationality
Übersetzer: Adluri, Vishwa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sets itself the Herculean task of comparing and reconciling the modern and Platonic concepts of rationality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 634
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 236mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1361g
• ISBN-13: 9781571134974
• ISBN-10: 1571134972
• Artikelnr.: 32447356

Autorenporträt

Arbogast Schmitt, Vishwa Adluri

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Do Freedom and Indeterminacy Make Man a Cultural Being? Or,
Why Antiquity Seems Antiquated "Healthy Common Sense" and the
Nature/Culture Antithesis The Interpretation of "Antiquity" from the
Perspective of Modern Rationality The Epistemological Foundations of a
Philosophy of Discrimination Abstract Consciousness versus Concrete
Thought: Overcoming the Opposition between Feeling and Reason in a
Philosophy of Discrimination The Soul in a Philosophy of Consciousness and
in a Philosophy of Discrimination The Different Forms of Volition and Their
Dependence upon Cognition The Aesthetic, Ethical, and Political
Significance of a Culture of Feelings in Plato and Aristotle Theory and
Practice: Plato's and Aristotle's Grounding of Political Theory in a Theory
of Man Evolutionary and Biological Conditions for Self-Preservation and
Rational Conditions for Man's Self-Realization: An Appeal for a New
Evaluation of Rationality The Contrast "Ancient" versus "Modern"
Characteristic Differences between the Platonic-Aristotelian and the
Hellenistic Understanding of Rationality Index