Thinking about thinking : what kind of conversation is philosophy? / Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Peperzak, Adriaan Theodoor, 1929-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Philosophy and religion.
• Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Thinking about Thinking examines philosophy from a variety of perspectives as a the practice realized by persons who communicate with one another while reflecting about the meaning of human life and thought. Without forgetting the logical and methodological conditions of systematic thought, the author insists on the intimate connections that tie all philosophical texts and conversations to the lives from which they emerge. As product of an individual thinker, who, thanks to individual teachers, has been familiarized with particular traditions of a particular culture, each philosophy is unique.

Contents:

• That we are a conversation
• On the unity of thematic philosophy and philosophy as history of thought
• The relevance of intersubjectivity for first philosophy and the history of philosophy
• Education: responsive tradition
• Philosophy: wise about friendship?
• Vocative
• Philosophy versus faith?
• The universality of a Christian philosophy
• Sacrificium laudis, sacrificium intellectus
• Philosophy as mediation between faith and culture.

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 0-8232-4021-5
• 0-8232-4953-0

OCLC:

923763640