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The Failures of Philosophy
Stephen Gaukroger
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Sachbuch / Philosophie: Antike bis Gegenwart
Beschreibung
The first book to address the historical failures of philosophy—and what we can learn from them
Philosophers are generally unaware of the failures of philosophy, recognizing only the failures of particular theories, which are then remedied with other theories. But, taking the long view, philosophy has actually collapsed several times, been abandoned, sometimes for centuries, and been replaced by something quite different. When it has been revived it has been with new aims that are often accompanied by implausible attempts to establish continuity with a perennial philosophical tradition. What do these failures tell us?
The Failures of Philosophy presents a historical investigation of philosophy in the West, from the perspective of its most significant failures: attempts to provide an account of the good life, to establish philosophy as a discipline that can stand in judgment over other forms of thought, to set up philosophy as a theory of everything, and to construe it as a discipline that rationalizes the empirical and mathematical sciences. Stephen Gaukroger argues that these failures reveal more about philosophical inquiry and its ultimate point than its successes ever could. These failures illustrate how and why philosophical inquiry has been conceived and reconceived, why philosophy has been thought to bring distinctive skills to certain questions, and much more.
An important and original account of philosophy’s serial breakdowns, The Failures of Philosophy ultimately shows how these shortcomings paradoxically reveal what matters most about the field.
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Idealism, Phenomenon, Writing, Abductive reasoning, Consciousness, Critique of Pure Reason, Logic, Religion, Ancient philosophy, Thomism, The Philosopher, Utilitarianism, Socratic, Analytic–synthetic distinction, Theory of justification, Concept, Critical philosophy, Ontology, Baruch Spinoza, Existence, Premise, Veridicality, Ethics, Pantheism, Scientific theory, Morality, Abstraction, Early modern philosophy, Neoplatonism, Philosopher, Rationalism, Direct and indirect realism, Platonism, Stoicism, Natural philosophy, Empirical evidence, Principle, Reason, Theology, Theory of Forms, Philosophy of science, Kantianism, Scientific method, Aristotelianism, First principle, Unity of science, Sensibility, Sophist, Contradiction, Dichotomy, Philosophy, Thought, Metaphysical naturalism, Natural theology, Inference, Epicureanism, Epistemology, Existence of God, Aristotle, Science, Relativism, Explanation, Pre-Socratic philosophy, Western philosophy, Deductive reasoning, Objectivity (philosophy), Reality, Atomism, Theory, Treatise