Dialectic vs. technocracy : higher reasoning from ancient Greek rationalism to modern German idealism / Tommi Juhani Hanhijarvi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hanhijärvi, Tommi Juhani, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dialectic--History.

Dialectic.

Reasoning--History.

Reasoning.

Physical Description:

xii, 219 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Algora Publishing, [2022]

Summary:

"Low reason is about coping in the world in the world's terms; but our freedom, morality, and enlightenment require the higher, more speculative faculty. Dr. Hanhijarvi (Humboldt Univ.) invites us to explore the great thinkers and re-activate the profound abilities of the human mind that so importantly out-shine today's mechanistic thinking"-- Provided by publisher.

"Which is superior, the human mind or Artificial Intelligence? Dr. Tommi Hanhijarvi (Humboldt Univ.) blows away the technocrats by showing that much of the value of human thinking lies in the higher, more speculative faculty that only the human mind can provide. With chapters focusing particularly on Socrates, Plato, Kant and Hegel, the book opens up the ideas of the Greek Rationalists as well as the German Idealists"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Socrates : questioning Athens

Plato : ideas, God, utopia

Kant : autonomy and the antinomies

Hegel : A world of ideas

Appendix A. Quotations from Theoreau's Walden

Appendix B. Quotations from Kierkegaard's Either/Or

Appendix C. Quotations from Hume's History Essay.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-216) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Hanhijärvi, Tommi Juhani. Dialectic vs. technocracy

ISBN:

9781628945010

162894501X

9781628945003

1628945001

OCLC:

1370009494