Philosophy at the Crossroads.
Title:
Philosophy at the Crossroads.
Author:
Ballard, Edward G.
ISBN:
9780807149577
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (287 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- I: Introduction -- 1. IS PHILOSOPHY FINISHED? -- 2. PHILOSOPHY: THE INTERPRETATION OF ARCHAIC EXPERIENCE -- 3. THE FACTORS OF ARCHAIC EXPERIENCE -- 4. CONCERNING THE PLATONIC INTERPRETATION -- 5. SOME QUESTIONS -- II: Descartes: Two Sources of Modern Philosophy -- 6. AFTER PLATO -- 7. HUMANISM AND SCIENCE -- 8. ANTHROPOMORPHISM AND ITS REJECTION -- 9. THE PROBLEM OF CERTAINTY -- 10. THE COGITO -- 11. THE EPISTEMIC FUNCTION OF THE COGITO AND THE TRANSCENDENTAL PROBLEM -- 12. THE COGITO ONTOLOGICALLY OR TRANSCENDENTALLY CONSIDERED -- 13. THE SENSE OF THE CARTESIAN PHILOSOPHY -- 14. CARTESIAN PHILOSOPHY AND ITS FATE -- III: Modern Man in Renaissance Space -- 15. LIKE COSMOS, LIKE MAN -- 16. VERSUS THE ARISTOTELIAN COSMOS -- 17. CARTESIAN SPACE: THE TREND OF SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT -- 18. THE NEUTRAL WORLD -- 19. THE HUMEAN SCIENCE OF HUMAN NATURE -- 20. ON HUME'S SUCCESS AND FAILURE -- 21. THE BRAVE NEW HUMEAN WORLD -- IV: Kant on Nature and Human Nature -- 22. KANT'S TASKS -- 23. KANT'S EPISTEMOLOGICAL PROBLEM -- 24. ON THE POSSIBILITY OF COGNITION -- 25. KANT'S THEORY OF PHENOMENAL OBJECTS -- 26. THE NATURE OF TRANSCENDENTAL KNOWLEDGE -- 27. THE KANTIAN-COPERNICAN REVOLUTION AND ITS AVOIDANCE -- 28. KANT'S DOCTRINE OF THE SELF -- 29. THE EMPIRICAL SELF IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD -- 30. THE NOUMENAL SELF IN THE INTELLIGIBLE WORLD -- 31. THE ROMANTIC FATE OF KANTIAN MAN -- V: Objectivity and Rationality in Husserl's Philosophy -- 32. HUSSERL'S BEGINNING -- 33. FROM THE TRANSCENDENTAL FOUNDATION TOWARD OBJECTIVE REALITY -- 34. THE TRANSCENDENTAL FUNCTION OF THE EGO -- 35. INTERSUBJECTIVITY -- 36. CRITICISMS AND REINTERPRETATION -- 37. HUSSERL'S PREDICAMENT AND HISTORY -- VI: Heidegger: The "There" and the Place of Science -- 38. THE POSITION OF THE PROBLEM.
39. TOWARD A POST-HUSSERLIAN ONTOLOGY -- 40. THE OBJECT OF SCIENCE AND ITS ONTOLOGICAL BASIS -- 41. ON THE ORIGIN OF THE REAL OBJECT -- 42. WORLD AND REALITY -- 43. THE STRUCTURE OF CARE AND THE CARTESIAN TRANSCENDENTAL PROBLEM -- 44. THE UNITY OF CARE AND THE RELATION OF AUTHENTICITY TO OBJECTIVITY -- 45. EVALUATION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY -- 46. FROM GESTELL TO GELASSENHEIT -- 47. THE COURSE OF REASON TO HEIDEGGER -- VII: Where Three Ways Meet -- 48. THE POSITION AT THE PRESENT -- 49. PHILOSOPHY DIVIDED -- 50. PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY -- 51. THE DRIFT OF HISTORY -- 52. END OR BEGINNING? -- 53. THE LABYRINTH OF FATE -- Index.
Abstract:
A study of the course and consequences of modern Western thought, this volume deals with some of the most crucial philosophical questions of our time.In Philosophy at the Crossroads, Edward G. Ballard defines philosophy as the interpretation of archaic experience-that transition or change which forces one to attempt to understand, and usually reformulate, the basic notional framework within which order and value are discovered. He illustrates the relevance of this definition in the work of six philosophers-Plato, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Jusserl, and Heidegger-and develops an interpretation of several important lines of growth in Western philosophy.The first transition Professor Ballard examines is the movement from pre-Homeric, oral, and poetic culture to the Socratic, written, intellectualist culture. The new tradition is evident in Plato, who is at once mythmaker and humanist and also the father of the sciences. Plato, says Ballard, instituted an uneasy balance between a sciencelike interest in the world and a humanist self-care by defining the former as a means to the humanistic end. He demonstrates that this uneasy balance is an important clue to understanding Western intellectual history.The author traces the growth and various directions of Western thought through Heidegger, discusses its contemporary status, and speculates on the potential for its future development.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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