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The View From Nowhere
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Author : Thomas Nagel
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1986-01-23
The View From Nowhere written by Thomas Nagel and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-01-23 with Philosophy categories.
Human beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way: We can think about the world in terms that transcend our own experience or interest, and consider the world from a vantage point that is, in Nagel's words, "nowhere in particular." At the same time, each of us is a particular person in a particular place, each with his own "personal" view of the world, a view that we can recognize as just one aspect of the whole. How do we reconcile these two standpoints--intellectually, morally, and practically? To what extent are they irreconcilable and to what extent can they be integrated? Thomas Nagel's ambitious and lively book tackles this fundamental issue, arguing that our divided nature is the root of a whole range of philosophical problems, touching, as it does, every aspect of human life. He deals with its manifestations in such fields of philosophy as: the mind-body problem, personal identity, knowledge and skepticism, thought and reality, free will, ethics, the relation between moral and other values, the meaning of life, and death. Excessive objectification has been a malady of recent analytic philosophy, claims Nagel, it has led to implausible forms of reductionism in the philosophy of mind and elsewhere. The solution is not to inhibit the objectifying impulse, but to insist that it learn to live alongside the internal perspectives that cannot be either discarded or objectified. Reconciliation between the two standpoints, in the end, is not always possible.
View From Nowhere
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Author : Nagel Thomas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
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Views From Nowhere
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Author : Gillian Steel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
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Views From Nowhere
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language : de
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Release Date : 2015
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Is The View From Nowhere Going Anywhere
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Author : Paul G. Muscari
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
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The Subjectivity Of The Mental
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Author : Jeremy W. Bowman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
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The View From Nowhere
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Author : Chuck Anderson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
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News From Nowhere Or An Epoch Of Rest
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Author : William Morris
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2013-05-05
News From Nowhere Or An Epoch Of Rest written by William Morris and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-05 with Fiction categories.
Up at the League, says a friend, there had been one night a brisk conversational discussion, as to what would happen on the Morrow of the Revolution, finally shading off into a vigorous statement by various friends of their views on the future of the fully-developed new society.Says our friend: Considering the subject, the discussion was good-tempered; for those present being used to public meetings and after-lecture debates, if they did not listen to each others' opinions (which could scarcely be expected of them), at all events did not always attempt to speak all together, as is the custom of people in ordinary polite society when conversing on a subject which interests them. For the rest, there were six persons present, and consequently six sections of the party were represented, four of which had strong but divergent Anarchist opinions. One of the sections, says our friend, a man whom he knows very well indeed, sat almost silent at the beginning of the discussion, but at last got drawn into it, and finished by roaring out very loud, and damning all the rest for fools; after which befel a period of noise, and then a lull, during which the aforesaid section, having said good-night very amicably, took his way home by himself to a western suburb, using the means of travelling which civilisation has forced upon us like a habit. As he sat in that vapour-bath of hurried and discontented humanity, a carriage of the underground railway, he, like others, stewed discontentedly, while in self-reproachful mood he turned over the many excellent and conclusive arguments which, though they lay at his fingers' ends, he had forgotten in the just past discussion. But this frame of mind he was so used to, that it didn't last him long, and after a brief discomfort, caused by disgust with himself for having lost his temper (which he was also well used to), he found himself musing on the subject-matter of discussion, but still discontentedly and unhappily. “If I could but see a day of it,” he said to himself; “if I could but see it!”
Eight Views Of Nowhere
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Author : Meredith Anne Squires
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
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The works in this research are a photographic portrait of 'home' and an exploration of imagined places, both actual and mythical. The visual works document a 'journey' from my daily reality into an idealised world: to and from nowhere. The research explores the questions: What does it mean to take a journey? Can you take a journey without actually going anywhere? Is it possible to 'travel' in a meaningful way while remaining at home? All journeys are to some extent 'imagined' and, like other journeys, a journey at home is a fusion of an actual encounter with place and a constructed narrative. The research looks at the concept of 'home' as a starting point, for an imagined journey. The intertwining of 'image as place' and 'place as image' is explored. How we experience a place as an 'image' before we have visited it may affect our actual bodily encounter with that place.Despite our awareness of the manipulative possibilities of digital technology, manyviewers continue to read photographs as reflecting the real world. This researchexplores the paradox of creating imagined landscapes using photography, a mediumthat is usually associated with truth. The work ofthree contemporary photographers,Joan Fontcuberta, Thomas Demand and Andreas Gursky is discussed in this context, asthese artists all deal with fictions, and create fictional places, using photography. Some of the visual works adopt similar methodologies to those used by Demand, Fontcuberta and Gursky.Chinese landscape paintings have a long tradition of depicting imagined landscapes. The aim of these paintings was to capture the essence or 'spirit' of a place rather than to depict its appearance with strict topological accuracy. The research focusses on a specific genre of Chinese landscape paintings, Eight Views of the Xiao Xiang River, by scholar-painters of the Southern Song Dynasty, and traces the genre from its beginnings in China through its translation and migration throughout East Asia and its consequent changes in style and function. The visual works explore this ancient artistic tradition in a contemporary context. The works experiment with counterpointing western conventions of perspective with non-western multi focal perspective and horizontal and vertical scroll formats used in classical Chinese painting.
Desiring The Good
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Author : Katja Maria Vogt
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-08-01
Desiring The Good written by Katja Maria Vogt and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-01 with Philosophy categories.
Desiring the Good defends a novel and distinctive approach in ethics that is inspired by ancient philosophy. Ethics, according to this approach, starts from one question and its most immediate answer: "what is the good for human beings?"--"a well-going human life." Ethics thus conceived is broader than moral philosophy. It includes a range of topics in psychology and metaphysics. Plato's Philebus is the ancestor of this approach. Its first premise, defended in Book I of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, is that the final agential good is the good human life. Though Aristotle introduces this premise while analyzing human activities, it is absent from approaches in the theory of action that self-identify as Aristotelian. This absence, Vogt argues, is a deep and far-reaching mistake, one that can be traced back to Elizabeth Anscombe's influential proposals. And yet, the book is Anscombian in spirit. It engages with ancient texts in order to contribute to philosophy today, and it takes questions about the human mind to be prior to, and relevant to, substantive normative matters. In this spirit, Desiring the Good puts forward a new version of the Guise of the Good, namely that desire to have one's life go well shapes and sustains mid- and small-scale motivations. A theory of good human lives, it is argued, must make room for a plurality of good lives. Along these lines, the book lays out a non-relativist version of Protagoras's Measure Doctrine and defends a new kind of realism about good human lives.