Egotism in German Philosophy
Author : George Santayana
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 31,99 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Philosophy
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Author : George Santayana
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 31,99 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Philosophy
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Author : George Santayana
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Philosophy
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George Santayana in this book talks about the soul of German philosophy – Egotism. He considered it as a subjectivity in thought and willfulness in morals which is by no means a gratuitous thing. It discusses the pathetic situation that German philosophy has inculcated in its people.
Author : Nelson W. Keith
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 2015-07-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0739178091
This book is revolutionary in intent, and is in many ways quite an uncommon work. It is iconoclastic, as it goes about dislodging roots. It attempts to release the stigmatized Other from entrapment by rationalism and modern liberalism. The stigmatized Other are legendarily marginalized from congenial social relations with mainstream society. They include peoples of color, women, gays and lesbians, among others. Entrapment through misrecognition is captured via marked contrasts existing between two major liberal configurations: modern liberalism and pragmatism. Accordingly the book is tasked with overcoming the systemic constraints placed upon the stigmatized Other to conform when such a demand runs disastrously counter to their inherently irrefragable self-definition. Conformity is reductionist, beholden to dyadic forms of thinking which impose a singular, mathematically-derived God’s Eye View upon reality. The difficulty here is that the imposed criteria for giving meaning, value and purpose to human life, have no place for what the stigmatized Other adopts. On the other hand, pragmatism of a particular stripe establishes a naturalistic, instead of the mathematical basis, for our understanding of human life. Naturalism counsels that human beings should situate themselves directly in the midst of what constitutes their sense of life, with experience providing the bases for all the related determinations. Experience draws upon conditions of flux and uncertainty as the basis of human life. To adhere to the God’s Eye View is to make human beings into ‘desiccated calculating machines.’ This book is located in the heart of this tension. Programmatically, it deconstructs the rationalism/modern liberalism combine, and constructs its replacement in pragmatism complemented by phronesis, as carriers of this alternative mode of thought. Consequential change emerges: a modern liberal world of fixity in social relations, mathematically-derived is displaced by one characterized by intersubjective relations, where lived experience forms its scientific and philosophical bases. The Ancients figure prominently in this book, as it is shaped around the central idea that the emancipation of the stigmatized Other is occurring in the context of perhaps the first engagement between the Platonic and the Protagorean (Sophistic) confrontation which lies at the heart of early Greek thought.
Author : George W. Howgate
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,39 MB
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1512817023
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
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Page : 1160 pages
File Size : 26,76 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Editions
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Author : George Washburne Howgate
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Page : 380 pages
File Size : 12,44 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Philosophy, American
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Author : George Santayana
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Page : 310 pages
File Size : 28,25 MB
Release : 1936
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Author : G. Santayana
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 34,22 MB
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781330282151
Excerpt from Egotism in German Philosophy This book is one of the many that the present war has brought forth, but it is the fruit of a long gestation. During more than twenty years, while I taught philosophy at Harvard College, I had continual occasion to read and discuss German metaphysics. From the beginning it wore in my eyes a rather questionable shape. Under its obscure and fluctuating tenets I felt something sinister at work something at once hollow and aggressive. It seemed a forced method of speculation, producing more confusion than it found, and calculated chiefly to enable practical materialists to call themselves idealists and rationalists to remain theologians. At the same time the fear that its secret might be eluding me, seeing that by blood and tradition I was perhaps handicapped in the matter, spurred me to great and prolonged efforts to understand what confronted me so bewilderingly. I wished to be as clear and just about it as I could - more clear and just, indeed, than it ever was about itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : K G Saur Publishing
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 35,85 MB
Release : 2005-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783598238994
The established reference work Guide to Reprints has been radically reworked for this edition. Bibliographical data was substantially increased where information was obtainable. In addition, the user-friendliness of Guide to Reprints was raised to the high level of other K.G. Saur directories through author-title cross-references, a subject volume, a person index and a publisher index. In this edition, the directory lists more than 60,000 titles from more than 350 publishers.
Author : Paul Arthur Schilpp
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Page : 732 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 1940
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