Dialectics : a classical approach to inquiry / Nicholas Rescher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rescher, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dialectic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Few ideas have played a more continuously prominent role throughout the history of philosophy than that of dialectic, which has figured on the philosophical agenda from the time of the Presocratics. The present book explores the philosophical promise of dialectic, especially in its dialogical version associated with disputation, debate, and rational controversy. The book's deliberations examine what lessons can be drawn to exhibit the utility of dialectical proceedings for the theory of knowledge in reminding us that the building-up of knowledge is an interpersonally interactive enterprise subject to communal standards.

Contents:

Frontmatter

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

Chapter 1: DIALECTICAL PROCESSES: A GENERAL VIEW

Chapter 2: DISPUTATIONAL DIALECTIC

Chapter 3: COGNITIVE DIALECTIC

Chapter 4: METHODOLOGICAL DIALECTIC

Chapter 5: ONTOLOGICAL DIALECTIC: THE HEGELIAN BACKGROUND

Chapter 6: PHILOSOPHICAL DIALECTIC

Chapter 7: A BRIEF HISTORY OF DIALECTIC

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Name Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-938793-76-7

3-11-032128-9

OCLC:

851972097