The Divine Complex and Free Thinking, Algis Mickunas

Автор: Algis Mickunas
Название: The Divine Complex and Free Thinking
ISBN: 1612891020 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781612891026
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The text presents arguments, demonstrating what domain belongs to philosophy and what areas are ""unphilosophical"" and at time ""antiphilosophical."" The ""unphilosophical"" systems are claims are based on the notion--even if not explicit--of ""man as the measure of things,"" while the unphilosophical"" trend consists of pronouncements whose veracity is not to be questioned. Since philosophy, in principle, is a quest for rational justification of any claim, then its questioning of those pronouncements leads to the denouncement and, in principle, forbidding, destruction of philosophical writings and philosophers. The argument is extended to disclose that both mentioned trends end up in ""metaphysics of the will"" wherein the human self-understanding as not only the measure, but also the ""creator"" of all things through the scientific-technical, is hence isometric with the antiphilosophical trends and its pronouncements of the supremacy of the will of the creator. At this level, modern ""philosophical"" trends become identical with the metaphysics of the will--divine complex.<br><br>Counter to this trend is the philosophical classical tradition whose first principle is ""fallible reason"" and resultantly a demand and a duty to contest every claim, to find arguments for and against any position and its claim to the ""only truth."" Philosophy demands not only arguments, but a direct evidence in unhindered and uninterpreted phenomena--leading to the denial that ""man is the measure of all things."" The text purports to explicate--at the end--an ontological position that is also epistemological in order to encompass the classical notion of the primacy of the perceivable things of the world, but also of the principles of their space-time unfolding. At this level, there is a critique of the principles of ""first philosophies,"" both in their ontological and metaphysical forms

Автор: Van Inwagen, Peter
Название: Thinking about free will
ISBN: 1316617653 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316617656
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: van Inwagen is a major name in the philosophy of free will, and this book, which includes several of his most significant essays alongside two new pieces, will be essential for scholars and students of metaphysics and the philosophy of action. Topics discussed include determinism and moral responsibility.

Автор: Scholar, Richard
Название: Montaigne and the art of free-thinking
ISBN: 1906165203 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781906165208
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Education, religion, scepticism, politics, friendship, sex, and style - Montaigne's major themes are revealed here in the making of a text that practises freedom of thought by putting it to the test. This is an audacious close reading of the Essays and a demonstration of how Montaigne's great book continues to speak to the present.

Автор: Doug Hill
Название: Not So Fast: Thinking Twice about Technology
ISBN: 082035029X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820350295
Издательство: Turpin
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Описание: What is technology, and how is it shaping us? In search of answers to those questions, Not So Fast draws on the insights of scholars and artists who have thought deeply about the meanings of machines. The book explores such dynamics as technological drift, technological momentum, and technological autonomy to help us understand the interconnected phenomena of our technological world.

Автор: Keith Whitmoyer
Название: The Philosophy of Ontological Lateness: Merleau-Ponty and the Tasks of Thinking
ISBN: 1350003972 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350003972
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Addressing Merleau-Ponty’s work Phenomenology of Perception in dialogue with The Visible and the Invisible, his lectures at the Coll?ge de France, and his reading of Proust, this book argues that at play in his thought is a philosophy of “ontological lateness”. This describes the manner in which philosophical reflection is fated to lag behind its objects and, therefore, an absolute grasp on being remains beyond its reach. This lateness is due to the extent to which reflection finds itself in the grip of a deflagration and splitting open of sense, a deflagration articulated through the unfurling of temporal flux. Insofar as temporality by its very nature never achieves the density of completed being, it constitutes not only the delay of reflection behind its object but also ontological lateness, the lateness of expressivity to being. Merleau-Ponty articulates this philosophy against the backdrop of what he calls “cruel thought”, a style of reflecting that seeks resolution by limiting, circumscribing, and arresting its object. By contrast, the philosophy of ontological lateness seeks no such final unveiling—no apocalypsis—but is characterized by its ability to accept the veiling—the calypsis—of being and its own constitutive lack of punctuality. To this extent, his thinking inaugurates a new relation to the becoming of sense that overcomes cruel thought. Philia-sophia, loving wisdom, is no longer understood as possession of anything—not of knowledge, truth, the other, or even of oneself. Rather, Merleau-Ponty’s work gives voice to a wisdom of dispossession that allows for the withdrawal of being. Never before has anyone engaged with the theme of Merleau-Ponty’s own understanding of philosophy in such a sustained way as Whitmoyer does in this volume.

Автор: Fink Charles K.
Название: Moral Reasons: An Introduction to Ethics and Critical Thinking
ISBN: 0761868429 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780761868422
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Описание: Distinguished by its readability and scope, Moral Reasons explains how to think critically about issues in ethics and political philosophy. After a detailed overview of moral reasoning including dozens of exercises the text guides readers through the theories and arguments of philosophers from Plato to Peter Singer.