A Dark History of Modern Philosophy
Title | A Dark History of Modern Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Freydberg |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 161 |
Release | 2017-08-14 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0253030242 |
This provocative reassessment of modern philosophy explores its nonrational dimensions and connection to ancient mysteries. Delving beneath the principal discourses of philosophyfrom Descartes through Kant, Bernard Freydberg plumbs the previously concealed dark forces that ignite the inner power of modern thought. He contends that reason itself issues from an implicit and unconscious suppression of the nonrational. Even the modern philosophical concerns of nature and limits are undergirded by a dark side that dwells in them and makes them possible. Freydberg traces these dark sources to the poetry of Hesiod, the fragments of Heraclitus and Parmenides, and the Platonic dialogues and claims that they rear their heads again in the work of Spinoza, Schelling, and Nietzsche. Freydberg does not set forth a critique of modern philosophy but explores its intrinsic continuity with its ancient roots.
Evil in Modern Thought
Title | Evil in Modern Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Neiman |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 408 |
Release | 2015-08-25 |
Genre | Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy |
ISBN | 0691168504 |
Whether expressed in theological or secular terms, evil poses a problem about the world's intelligibility. It confronts philosophy with fundamental questions: Can there be meaning in a world where innocents suffer? Can belief in divine power or human progress survive a cataloging of evil? Is evil profound or banal? Neiman argues that these questions impelled modern philosophy. Traditional philosophers from Leibniz to Hegel sought to defend the Creator of a world containing evil. Inevitably, their efforts--combined with those of more literary figures like Pope, Voltaire, and the Marquis de Sade--eroded belief in God's benevolence, power, and relevance, until Nietzsche claimed He had been murdered. They also yielded the distinction between natural and moral evil that we now take for granted. Neiman turns to consider philosophy's response to the Holocaust as a final moral evil, concluding that two basic stances run through modern thought. One, from Rousseau to Arendt, insists that morality demands we make evil intelligible. The other, from Voltaire to Adorno, insists that morality demands that we don't.
History of Modern Philosophy
Title | History of Modern Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Falckenberg |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | 501 |
Release | 2020-07-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3752359927 |
Reproduction of the original: History of Modern Philosophy by Richard Falckenberg
Philosophy and Its History
Title | Philosophy and Its History PDF eBook |
Author | Mogens Laerke |
Publisher | OUP USA |
Total Pages | 374 |
Release | 2013-08-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199857148 |
This volume collects contributions from leading scholars of early modern philosophy from a wide variety of philosophical and geographic backgrounds. The distinguished contributors offer very different, competing approaches to the history of philosophy.
History of Modern Philosophy
Title | History of Modern Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Wiliam Benn |
Publisher | Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | 170 |
Release | 2012-08-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781290907521 |
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Race and Racism in Modern Philosophy
Title | Race and Racism in Modern Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Valls |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | 306 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780801472749 |
An innovative, substantial intervention in critical race theory, this book brings together an impressive roster of thinkers to trace the question of race in modern philosophical inquiry and explore its influence on contemporary philosophy.
A Brief History of Modern Philosophy
Title | A Brief History of Modern Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Harald Høffding |
Publisher | Good Press |
Total Pages | 259 |
Release | 2021-04-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
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