Being And Some Philosophers
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Author |
: Étienne Gilson |
Publisher |
: PIMS |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 1952 |
ISBN-10 |
: 088844415X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780888444158 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (5X Downloads) |
Synopsis Being and Some Philosophers by : Étienne Gilson
The study of being was one of the main preoccupations of Etienne Gilson's scholarly and intellectual life. Being and Some Philosophers is at once a testament to the persistence of those concerns and an important landmark in the history of the question of being. The book charts the ways in which being is translated across history, from unity in Plato and substance in Aristotle to essence in Avicenna and the act of existence in Aquinas. It examines the vicissitudes of essence and existence in Suarez and Christian Wolff, in Hegel and Kierkegaard, in order to uncover the metaphysical and existential foundations of modern thought. And yet Being and Some Philosophers remains not so much an historical investigation (although it could only have been written by a scholar steeped in the history of philosophy) but, in the words of its author, "a philosophical book, and a dogmatically philosophical one at that." Its passionate vigour has proven, over many years, at once fresh and provocative. Indeed, the appendix to this revised edition contains critiques of the book by two Thomists as well as Gilson's replies to their objections.
Author |
: Etienne Gilson |
Publisher |
: Ignatius Press |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 089870748X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780898707489 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (8X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Unity of Philosophical Experience by : Etienne Gilson
"Lectures ... given at Harvard University in the first half of the academic year 1936-37"--Foreword.
Author |
: N. Joll |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2016-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230392656 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230392652 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Philosophy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by : N. Joll
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy provides an excellent way of looking at some intriguing issues in philosophy, from vegetarianism and Artificial Intelligence to God, space and time. This is an entertaining yet thought provoking volume for students, philosophers and fans of The Hitchhiker's series.
Author |
: Thomas Metzinger |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 896 |
Release |
: 2004-08-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262263801 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262263807 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Being No One by : Thomas Metzinger
According to Thomas Metzinger, no such things as selves exist in the world: nobody ever had or was a self. All that exists are phenomenal selves, as they appear in conscious experience. The phenomenal self, however, is not a thing but an ongoing process; it is the content of a "transparent self-model." In Being No One, Metzinger, a German philosopher, draws strongly on neuroscientific research to present a representationalist and functional analysis of what a consciously experienced first-person perspective actually is. Building a bridge between the humanities and the empirical sciences of the mind, he develops new conceptual toolkits and metaphors; uses case studies of unusual states of mind such as agnosia, neglect, blindsight, and hallucinations; and offers new sets of multilevel constraints for the concept of consciousness. Metzinger's central question is: How exactly does strong, consciously experienced subjectivity emerge out of objective events in the natural world? His epistemic goal is to determine whether conscious experience, in particular the experience of being someone that results from the emergence of a phenomenal self, can be analyzed on subpersonal levels of description. He also asks if and how our Cartesian intuitions that subjective experiences as such can never be reductively explained are themselves ultimately rooted in the deeper representational structure of our conscious minds.
Author |
: Etienne Gilson |
Publisher |
: Ignatius Press |
Total Pages |
: 207 |
Release |
: 2012-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781586176853 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1586176854 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Thomist Realism and the Critique of Knowledge by : Etienne Gilson
The highly regarded French philosopher, tienne Gilson, brilliantly plumbs the depths of Thomistic Realism, and false Thomisms as well, in this answer to Kantian modernism. The important work, exquisitely translated by Mark Wauck, brings the essential elements of philosophy into view as a cohesive, readily understandable, and erudite structure, and does so rigorously in the best tradition of St. Thomas. Written as the definitive answer to those philosophers who sought to reconcile critical philosophy with scholastic realism, Gilson saw himself as an historian of philosophy whose main task was one of restoration, and principally the restoration of the wisdom of the Common Doctor of the Church, St. Thomas Aquinas. Gilsons thesis was that realism was incompatible with the critical method and that realism, to the extent that it was reflective and aware of its guiding principles, was its own proper method. He gives a masterful account of the various forces that shaped the neo-scholastic revival, but Gilson is concerned with the past only as it sheds light on the present. In addition to his criticisms, Gilson presents a positive exposition of true Thomist realism, revealing the foundation of realism in the unity of the knowing subject.
Author |
: Etienne Gilson |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 184 |
Release |
: 2002-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300092997 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300092998 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis God and Philosophy by : Etienne Gilson
In this classic work, the eminent Catholic philosopher Étienne Gilson deals with one of the most important and perplexing metaphysical problems: the relation between our notion of God and demonstrations of his existence. Gilson examines Greek, Christian, and modern philosophy as well as the thinking that has grown out of our age of science in this fundamental analysis of the problem of God. "[I] commend to another generation of seekers and students this deeply earnest and yet wistfully gentle little essay on the most important (and often, at least nowadays, the most neglected) of all metaphysical--and existential--questions. . . . The historical sweep is breathtaking, the one-liners arresting, and the style, both intellectual and literary, altogether engaging." --Jaroslav Pelikan, from the foreword "We have come to expect from the pen of M. Gilson not only an accurate exposition of the thought of the great philosophers, ancient and modern, but what is of much more importance and of greater interest, a keen and sympathetic insight into the reasons for that thought. The present volume does not fail to fulfill our expectations. It should be read by every Christian thinker." --Ralph O. Dates, America
Author |
: Graham Priest |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 207 |
Release |
: 2005-05-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199262540 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199262543 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Towards Non-Being by : Graham Priest
Towards Non-Being presents an account of the semantics of intentional language - verbs such as 'believes', 'fears', 'seeks', 'imagines'. Graham Priest's account tackles problems concerning intentional states which are often brushed under the carpet in discussions of intentionality, such as their failure to be closed under deducibility. Drawing on the work of the late Richard Routley (Sylvan), it proceeds in terms of objects that may be either existent or non-existent, atworlds that may be either possible or impossible. Since Russell, non-existent objects have had a bad press in Western philosophy; Priest mounts a full-scale defence. In the process, he offers an account of both fictional and mathematical objects as non-existent.The book will be of central interest to anyone who is concerned with intentionality in the philosophy of mind or philosophy of language, the metaphysics of existence and identity, the philosophy or fiction, the philosophy of mathematics, or cognitive representation in AI.
Author |
: Simon Critchley |
Publisher |
: Melbourne Univ. Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780522855142 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0522855148 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Book of Dead Philosophers by : Simon Critchley
Diogenes died by holding his breath. Plato allegedly died of a lice infestation. Diderot choked to death on an apricot. Nietzsche made a long, soft-brained and dribbling descent into oblivion after kissing a horse in Turin. From the self-mocking haikus of Zen masters on their deathbeds to the last words (gasps) of modern-day sages, The Book of Dead Philosophers chronicles the deaths of almost 200 philosophers-tales of weirdness, madness, suicide, murder, pathos and bad luck. In this elegant and amusing book, Simon Critchley argues that the question of what constitutes a 'good death' has been the central preoccupation of philosophy since ancient times. As he brilliantly demonstrates, looking at what the great thinkers have said about death inspires a life-affirming enquiry into the meaning and possibility of human happiness. In learning how to die, we learn how to live.
Author |
: David Benatar |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 250 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199549269 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199549265 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Better Never to Have Been by : David Benatar
Most people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought into existence. David Benatar presents a startling challenge to these assumptions. He argues that people systematically overestimate the quality of their life, and suffer quite serious harms by coming into existence.
Author |
: Etienne Gilson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 510 |
Release |
: 1940 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X030153254 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Spirit of Mediæval Philosophy by : Etienne Gilson