The discipline of the cave / J. N. Findlay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Findlay, J. N. (John Niemeyer), 1903-1987, author.

Series:

Routledge Revivals

Routledge revivals

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 1966, The Discipline of the Cave is the first series of a course of Gifford lectures on philosophical issues.. J N Findlay's lectures use the image of the Cave to show how familiarity is full of restrictions, and involves puzzles and discrepancies unable to be resolved or removed. Such philosophical perplexities may be a result of the misunderstanding and abuse of ordinary ways of thinking and speaking. They may also be a way of 'drawing us towards being', providing proof of the absurdity of ordinary thought, speech and experience unless modified and added to in

Contents:

Cover; The Discipline of the Cave; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; I. The Furnishings of the Cave; II. The Methods of Cave-Exploration: I. Phenomenological; III. The Methods of Cave-Exploration:II. Dialectical; IV. The Cave Foreground: The Resting Face of Bodies; V. The Cave Foreground: The Moving Face of Bodies; VI. The Dissolution of Bodies; VII. Further Antinomies of Bodies; VIII. The Realm of Minds; IX. The Realm of Minds (Continued); X. The Dissolution of the Realm of Minds; INDEX; CONTENTS OF SECOND SERIES OF LECTURES

Notes:

"First published in 1966 by George Allen & Unwin"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-62560-7

1-283-96506-2

0-203-80226-8

1-136-62561-5

9780203802267

OCLC:

826856084