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Cultivated Reason

An Essay on Hume and Humeanism

Autor: Christopher Williams
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Carte broșată
Editura: Pennsylvania State University Press
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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As Plato's tripartite division of the soul, Descartes's criterion of clear and distinct ideas, and K...

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Autor
Christopher Williams
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
1998
Pagini
204
EAN
9780271025025
ISBN
0271025026
Enbook ID
04563839
Editura
Pennsylvania State University Press
Greutate
313
Dimensiuni
152 x 229 x 14

Descriere completă

As Plato's tripartite division of the soul, Descartes's criterion of clear and distinct ideas, and Kant's notion of the categorical imperative attest, philosophy has traditionally been wedded to rationalism and its "intellectualist" view of persons. In this book Christopher Williams seeks to wean his fellow philosophers away from an overly rationalistic self-understanding by using resources that are available within the philosophical tradition itself, including some that anticipate strands of Nietzsche's thought. The book begins by developing Hume's critique of rationalism, with reference especially to the section of the Treatise that deals with the continuing existence of bodies (an argument that subverts intellectualist criteria by attempting to satisfy them) and to his neglected essay "The Sceptic" where Hume reveals the importance of our embodiment through a comic portrayal of philosophers' efforts to "correct our sentiments." Then it moves on to ward off charges of irrationalism by showing that, although our powers of self-correction are more limited than the rationalist thinks they are, a Humean position is able both to sustain a commitment to reflection and to sensitize us to a version of irrationalism, manifest in monotheistic theologies, that is otherwise difficult to detect. The book concludes, more speculatively, with a comparison of persons to artworks in order to show how our aesthetic dimension is the source of some of the normative work previously assigned to rationalist reason. Ranging as it does across subfields from epistemology and history of philosophy to ethics and aesthetics, A Cultivated Reason should appeal to a wide audience of philosophers and to scholars in other fields as well. Christopher Williams is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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