The joy of philosophy: thinking thin versus the passionate life
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Espanya peninsular
- Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780195165401
- ISBN10 0195165403
- Tipus Llibre
- Pàgines 269
- Any Edició 2003
- Encuadernació Rústica
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AssaigsThe joy of philosophy: thinking thin versus the passionate life
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Espanya peninsular
Detalls del llibre
The Joy of Philosophy is a return to some of the perennial questions of philosophy -- questions about the meaning of life; about death and tragedy; about the respective roles of rationality and passion in the good life; about love, compassion, and revenge; about honesty, deception, and betrayal; and about who we are and how we think about who we are.
Recapturing the heart-felt confusion and excitement that originally brings us all to philosophy, internationally renowned teacher and lecturer Robert C. Solomon offers both a critique of contemporary philosophy and an invitation to engage in philosophy in a different way. He attempts to save philosophy from itself and its self-imposed diet of thin arguments and logical analysis to recover the richness and complexity of life in thought. Solomon defends the passionate life in contrast to the life of dispassionate contemplation idealized by so many philosophers, attempting to recapture the kind of philosophy that Nietzsche celebrated as a "joyful wisdom."