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Minding The Modern
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Author : Thomas Pfau
language : en
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Release Date : 2015-02-15
Minding The Modern written by Thomas Pfau and has been published by University of Notre Dame Pess this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-15 with Philosophy categories.
In this brilliant study, Thomas Pfau argues that the loss of foundational concepts in classical and medieval Aristotelian philosophy caused a fateful separation between reason and will in European thought. Pfau traces the evolution and eventual deterioration of key concepts of human agency—will, person, judgment, action—from antiquity through Scholasticism and on to eighteenth-century moral theory and its critical revision in the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Featuring extended critical discussions of Aristotle, Gnosticism, Augustine, Aquinas, Ockham, Hobbes, Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Hutcheson, Hume, Adam Smith, and Coleridge, this study contends that the humanistic concepts these writers seek to elucidate acquire meaning and significance only inasmuch as we are prepared positively to engage (rather than historicize) their previous usages. Beginning with the rise of theological (and, eventually, secular) voluntarism, modern thought appears increasingly reluctant and, in time, unable to engage the deep history of its own underlying conceptions, thus leaving our understanding of the nature and function of humanistic inquiry increasingly frayed and incoherent. One consequence of this shift is to leave the moral self-expression of intellectual elites and ordinary citizens alike stunted, which in turn has fueled the widespread notion that moral and ethical concerns are but a special branch of inquiry largely determined by opinion rather than dialogical reasoning, judgment, and practice. A clear sign of this regression is the present crisis in the study of the humanities, whose role is overwhelmingly conceived (and negatively appraised) in terms of scientific theories, methods, and objectives. The ultimate casualty of this reductionism has been the very idea of personhood and the disappearance of an adequate ethical language. Minding the Modern is not merely a chapter in the history of ideas; it is a thorough phenomenological and metaphysical study of the roots of today's predicaments.
The Making Of The Modern Mind
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Author : John Herman Randall, Jr.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954
The Making Of The Modern Mind written by John Herman Randall, Jr. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with categories.
The Making Of The Modern Mind
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Author : John Herman Randall (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
The Making Of The Modern Mind written by John Herman Randall (Jr.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Civilization categories.
The Modern Mind
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Author : Peter Watson
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2011-03-22
The Modern Mind written by Peter Watson and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-22 with Science categories.
From Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who produced the ideas by which we live. Peter Watson has produced a fluent and engaging narrative of the intellectual tradition of the twentieth century, and the men and women who created it.
The Making Of The Modern Mind
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Author : John Herman Randall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1940
The Making Of The Modern Mind written by John Herman Randall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1940 with PHILOSOPHY categories.
Looks at issues such as, the intellectual outlook of Medieval Christendom, the Renaissance, the order of nature in the 17th and 18th centuries, and thought and aspiration in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Understanding The Modern Mind
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Author : Robert Villegas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-07-17
Understanding The Modern Mind written by Robert Villegas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-17 with categories.
The purpose of this book is to delve into critical issues about how the human mind has come to the modern position of doubt and despair. The culprits in this matter include the irrationality of both rationalism and skepticism, and, in particular, the child of skepticism known as pragmatism. Our age is an age of irrationalism specifically because these philosophical concepts lead to doubt, confusion, and denial of reality.
Contemporary Mind
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Author : John William Navin Sullivan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1934
Contemporary Mind written by John William Navin Sullivan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1934 with Life categories.
The Shaping Of The Modern Mind
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Author : Crane Brinton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
The Shaping Of The Modern Mind written by Crane Brinton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with Civiliaztion, Occidental categories.
The Making Of Modern Mind
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Author : Leonard Carmichael
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-10-01
The Making Of Modern Mind written by Leonard Carmichael and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-01 with categories.
The Rockwell Lectures Of The Rice Institute.
Beyond The Post Modern Mind
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Author : Huston Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Beyond The Post Modern Mind written by Huston Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Philosophy, Modern categories.