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Mystery and intelligibility history of philosophy as pursuit of wisdom / edited by Jeffrey Dirk Wilson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wisdom.
- Philosophy.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Philosophy--History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Contributors consider the limits of our knowledge of a world of unlimited knowability by examining philosophical thought from the Classical Greeks to the present"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: mystery and intelligibility / Jeffrey Dirk Wilson
- 1. History, philosophy, and the history of philosophy / Timothy B. Noone
- 2. A guide for the perplexed or how to present or pervert the history of philosophy / John Rist
- 3. Wonder and the discovery of being: from Homeric myth to the natural genera of early Greek philosophy / Jeffrey Dirk Wilson
- 4. Metaphysics and the origin of culture / Donald Phillip Verene
- 5. Flux-Gibberish: for and against Heraclitus / William Desmond
- 6. Into the dark: how (not) to ask "Why is there anything at all?" / Eric D. Perl
- 7. What is philosophy? / Philipp W. Rosemann.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-3419-0
- OCLC:
- 1236368088
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