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Understanding Understanding eBook

de Richard Mason
idioma: inglês
Editor: State University of New York Press, fevereiro de 2012 ‧
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A study of the scope and limits of understanding.

How is understanding to be understood? Are there limits to understanding? What of importance, if anything, could lie beyond understanding? And do we need to understand knowledge before we can know about understanding? Richard Mason's argument is that a critical theory of understanding, modeled on past theories of knowledge, cannot be workable.

Understanding may bring wisdom: an uncomfortable thought for many philosophers in the twentieth century. Yet philosophy aims at expanding understanding at least as much as knowledge. How we understand understanding affects how we understand philosophy. If we put aside a narrow view of understanding based upon a Cartesian model of knowledge, we may gain a more liberal, open understanding of philosophy.

Mason's treatment of these fascinating problems offers a clear and lucid dialogue with a number of contemporary philosophical schools and with philosophy's past. His discussions include the thought of Hume, Henry James, Heidegger, Frege, Charles Taylor, Michael Oakeshott, Wittgenstein, Gadamer, James Joyce, and the Guyaki Indians. This fascinating book contributes to the work of many of these traditions as well as to the nature of understanding in areas as diverse as physics, music, and linguistics.

Understanding Understanding

de Richard Mason

Propriedade Descrição
ISBN: 9780791486122
Editor: State University of New York Press
Data de Lançamento: fevereiro de 2012
Idioma: Inglês
Páginas: 140
Tipo de produto: eBook
Formato e Compatibilidade:
Coleção: Suny Series In Philosophy
Classificação Temática: eBooks em Inglês > Ciências Sociais e Humanas > Filosofia
EAN: 9780791486122
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