David E. Cooper

The Measure of Things

Humanism, Humility, and Mystery

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a 'mystery'. Other views are shown to be incompatible with our human condition. Cooper restores to philosophy a proper appreciation of mystery - that is what provides a measure of our beliefs and conduct.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9780199235988
• ISBN-10: 0199235988
• Artikelnr.: 23072990

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1: Introduction
2: Self-assertion: from 'Ockhamism' to the Renaissance
3: Reason and Agency: Enlightenment, Kant and Romanticism
4: Prometheanism Unbound: from Marx and Nietzsche to Pragmatism
5: Existential Humanism
6: Interlude: Rival Humanisms
7: Belief, Posture and Humility
8: The Hubris of Absolutism
9: The Hubris of Humanism (1)
10: The Hubris of Humanism (2)
11: Mystery
12: Emptiness and Mystery
13: Mystery and Measure
Index