The Philosophers' Quarrel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Philosophers' Quarrel write by Robert Zaretsky. This book was released on 2009-01-01. The Philosophers' Quarrel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The dramatic collapse of the friendship between Rousseau and Hume, in the context of their grand intellectual quest to conquer the limits of human understanding. The rise and spectacular fall of the friendship between the two great philosophers of the eighteenth century, barely six months after they first met, reverberated on both sides of the Channel. As the relationship between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume unraveled, a volley of rancorous letters was fired off, then quickly published and devoured by aristocrats, intellectuals, and common readers alike. Everyone took sides in this momentous dispute between the greatest of Enlightenment thinkers. In this lively and revealing book, Robert Zaretsky and John T. Scott explore the unfolding rift between Rousseau and Hume. The authors are particularly fascinated by the connection between the thinkers' lives and thought, especially the way that the failure of each to understand the other--and himself--illuminates the limits of human understanding. In addition, they situate the philosophers' quarrel in the social, political, and intellectual milieu that informed their actions, as well as the actions of the other participants in the dispute, such as James Boswell, Adam Smith, and Voltaire. By examining the conflict through the prism of each philosopher's contribution to Western thought, Zaretsky and Scott reveal the implications for the two men as individuals and philosophers as well as for the contemporary world.
The Ancient Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry
The Ancient Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ancient Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry write by Raymond Barfield. This book was released on 2011-01-31. The Ancient Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From its beginnings, philosophy's language, concepts and imaginative growth have been heavily influenced by poetry and poets. Drawing on the work of a wide range of thinkers throughout the history of Western philosophy, Raymond Barfield explores the pervasiveness of poetry's impact on philosophy and, conversely, how philosophy has sometimes resisted or denied poetry's influence. Although some thinkers, like Giambatista Vico and Nietzsche, praised the wisdom of poets, and saw poetry and philosophy as mutually beneficial pursuits, others resented, diminished or eliminated the importance of poetry in philosophy. Beginning with the famous passage in Plato's Republic in which Socrates exiles the poets from the city, this book traces the history of the ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry through the works of thinkers in the Western tradition ranging from Plato to the work of the contemporary thinker Mikhail Bakhtin.
Philosophers at War
Philosophers at War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philosophers at War write by Alfred Rupert Hall. This book was released on 2002-09-12. Philosophers at War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A blow-by-blow account of the celebrated controversy over the invention of the calculus.
Quarrel Between Invariance and Flux
Quarrel Between Invariance and Flux - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quarrel Between Invariance and Flux write by Joseph Margolis. This book was released on 2010-11-01. Quarrel Between Invariance and Flux available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rather than just offer background readings or a survey of views on a subject, as traditional anthologies do, this volume tries to engage the reader's active participation in understanding how philosophy came to be split between analytic and continental approaches and in finding ways to reconcile the two. It does so by tracing the history of philosophy as a perennial contest between two opposing world views: one that relates change to an underlying structure of invariance, and another that sees change itself ("flux") as the basic condition of existence. The seven chapters cover the full range of major topics of philosophy, from metaphysics to epistemology to ethics, and present carefully selected readings from key thinkers--Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Hegel, and Peirce up to Heidegger, Husserl, Kuhn, Kripke, and Putnam, among others--juxtaposed and introduced by the editors so as to stimulate active thinking about how the debate between these competing visions plays out in each arena. A bibliography of additional sources ends each chapter. The result is a new and inspiring tool for teaching philosophy to both beginning and advanced students. Even seasoned professionals will have much to learn about the development of philosophy and its current predicament from accepting the challenge to rethink the tradition from the perspective presented here.
The Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry
The Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry write by Stanley Rosen. This book was released on 2014-06-03. The Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now available in paperback, The Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry focuses on the theoretical and practical suppositions of the long-standing conflict between philosophy and poetry. Stanley Rosen--one of the leading Plato scholars of our day--examines philosophical activity, questioning whether technical philosophy is a species of poetry, a political program, an interpretation of human existence according to the ideas of 19th and 20th-century thinkers, or a contemplation of beings and Being.
