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Routledge
498 Pages
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Routledge
496 Pages
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Routledge
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There is an historical element throughout philosophy. As Edel notes, this is always in the context of problems, so emphasis will fall on the major objective of reflective analysis of ideas. The major objective of Edel's analysis in The Theory and Practice of Philosophy is the fundamental interrelatedness of problems of method, metaphysics, and value. Each part is an integral whole, complete in... Read more
1: The Nature and Role of Philosophy; I: The Nature of Explanation; 2: Essence and Purpose: the Teleological Approach; 3: Causality and the Mechanistic Approach; 4: The Meaning of Law and the Nature of System; II: Empirical or Scientific Method; 5: Science and Its Method; 6: The Demand for Absolute Knowledge; 7: Testing by Experience; 8: Sense-Perception; 9: Critiques of Science; 10: Science, Truth, and Reality; III: What is a Man?; 11: Man as a Twofold Being; 12: Man as Ultimately Mental; 13: Man a Machine; 14: A Naturalistic Account of Man; 15: Problems of the Self; IV: Of Human Bondage and Human Freedom; 16: Values, Ends, and Means; 17: Freedom; 18: Liberty; 19: Techniques of Freedom and Liberty; 20: Democracy; V: The Direction of Human Affairs; 21: Materialism and Idealism; 22: Interpretation of Religion; 23: Interpretation of Art; 24: The Idealist Outlook on Human Affairs; 25: The Materialist Outlook on Human Affairs
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Abraham Edel
