Modernity and Plato Two Paradigms of Rationality
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
16.02.2027
Verlag
Boydell & BrewerSeitenzahl
634
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/0 cm
Übersetzt von
Vishwa Adluri
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-64014-420-0
Sets itself the Herculean task of comparing and reconciling the modern and Platonic concepts of rationality. Modernity's break with the Middle Ages is distinguished by a comprehensive turn to a world of individual, empirical experience, a turn that was a repudiation of Plato's idea that there is a reality of rationality and intellect. Yet already in the Renaissance it was no longer thought necessary to seriously confront the "old" concept of rationality that emanates from Plato. Arbogast Schmitt's book sets itself this until-now-unfulfilled task, comparing the arguments for a life based on theory and one based on praxis in order to provide a balance sheet of profit and loss. Showing that the Enlightenment did not, as often assumed, discover rationality, but instead a different concept of rationality, the book opens one's view to other forms of rationality and new possibilities of reconciliation with one's own - that is, Western - history. Modernity and Plato was hailed upon its publication in Germany (2003, revised 2008) as "one of the most important philosophy books of the past few years," as "a book that belongs, without any doubt, in the great tradition of German philosophy," and as "a provocative thesis on the antiquity-modernity debate." It is a major contribution to synthetic philosophy and philosophical historiography, in English for the first time.
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