Knowing and Value

Name: Knowing and Value
Brand: State University of New York Press
SKU: 9780791439906
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Toward a Constructive Postmodern Epistemology

Szerző: Frederick Ferre

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: State University of New York Press

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Modern thought, finally free from premodern excesses of belief, immediately fell prey to excesses of...

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Szerző

Frederick Ferre

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

1998

oldal

448

EAN

9780791439906

Enbook ID

04700380

Kiadó

State University of New York Press

Súly

540

Méretek

149 x 180 x 22

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Modern thought, finally free from premodern excesses of belief, immediately fell prey to excesses of doubt. This book points toward a postmodern approach to knowing that moves beyond the tired choice between dogma and skepticism. Its key deconstructive aim is to help contemporary philosophers see that their paralyzing modern "epistemological gap" is a myth. Its positive outcome, however, reverses the identification of "postmodern" with deconstruction rather than construction, with the "end of philosophy" rather than renewal in philosophy.Knowing and Value begins by tracing how we got here, and argues that much of our modern dilemma rests on choices that might have gone otherwise. Key value judgments underlying Plato's and Aristotle's epistemological norms, which still tend to govern our theories of knowledge, are clarified. Next the value-laden sources of premodern attitudes toward knowing are exposed by showing how the Christian synthesis of faith and reason was at first built by medieval Platonists and Aristotelians, then razed by premodern nominalists. This diagnostic account concludes with a close look at how modernity, from Hobbes and Descartes to Kant, designed its own epistemological trap by rejecting some premodern values, while accepting others.The book also examines the principal ways moderns (positivists, idealists, existentialists, and pragmatists) have tried to cope with the supposed epistemological gap -- each without success, but with every failure leaving resources for rebuilding.In a constructive climax, the book shows how an ecological worldview, emphasizing real relations (the view proposed in its predecessor volume, Being and Value) can heal the needlessruptures on which modern epistemic maladies depend. A reformed account of human experience confronts modern skepticism head-on; a fresh "process" approach to language and thinking is proposed; and finally, a postmodern, pluralist view of theories and truth is offered under a g

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