The measure of things : humanism, humility, and mystery / David E. Cooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, David E. (David Edward), 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanism.

Social values.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 372 pages)

Other Title:

Humanism, humility, and mystery

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Philosophers have long been divided between ‘humanists’, for whom ‘man is the measure of things’, and their opponents, who claim that there is a way, in principle knowable and describable, that the world anyway is, independent of human perspectives and interests. The early chapters of The Measure of Things chart the development of humanism from medieval times, through the Renaissance, Enlightenment and Romantic periods, to its modern form, ‘existential humanism’.

Contents:

Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. 'Self-Assertion': From 'Ockhamism' to Renaissance Humanism; 3. Reason and Agency: Enlightenment, Kant, and Romanticism; 4. Prometheanism: Marx, Nietzsche, Pragmatism, and 'Reactionary Modernism'; 5. Existential Humanism; 6. Interlude: Rival Humanisms; 7. Humility; 8. The Hubris of Absolutism; 9. The Hubris of Humanism (1); 10. The Hubris of Humanism (2); 11. Mystery; 12. Emptiness; 13. Mystery, Measure, and Humility; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-19-169668-4

0-19-154395-0

1-281-34163-0

9786611341633

OCLC:

466434015