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What makes a philosopher great? :

1138936154

1138936162

9781138936157

9781138936164

9781315676999

What makes a philosopher great? :

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thirteen arguments for twelve philosophers /

edited by Stephen Hetherington.

New York, NY :

Routledge,

2018.

©2018

x, 272 pages ;

23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Philosophical greatness: Introducing the very idea / Stephen Hetherington -- Plato, Platonism, and the history of philosophy / Lloyd P. Gerson -- Zhuangzi's suggestiveness: Sceptical questions / Karyn Lai -- Aristotle as systematic philosopher: Essence, necessity, and explanation in theory and practice / David Bronstein -- Attention to greatness: Buddhaghosa / Jonardon Ganeri -- Aquinas's complex web / Jeffrey Hause -- Descartes as a great philosopher: Comprehensive physics, mechanistic embodiment, and methodological systematicity / Gary Hatfield -- Émilie du Châtelet on women's minds and education / Karen Detlefsen -- What's so great about Hume? / Don Garrett -- Is Kant a great moral philosopher? / Allen Wood -- 'How is metaphysics possible?' Kant's great question and his great answer / Nicholas F. Stang -- Nietzsche: This time it's personal / Ken Gemes -- What makes Peirce a great philosopher? / Cheryl Misak -- Wittgenstein's un-ruley solution to the problem of philosophy / David MacArthur

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This book is inspired by a single powerful question. What is it to be great as a philosopher? No single grand answer is presumed to be possible; instead, rewardingly close studies of philosophical greatness are developed. This is a scholarly yet accessible volume, blending metaphilosophy with the long history of philosophy and traversing centuries and continents. The result is a series of case studies by accomplished scholars, each chapter trying to understand and convey a particular philosopher's greatness: Lloyd P. Gerson on Plato, Karyn Lai on Zhuangzi, David Bronstein on Aristotle, Jonardon Ganeri on Buddhaghosa, Jeffrey Hause on Aquinas, Gary Hatfield on Descartes, Karen Detlefsen on du Châtelet, Don Garrett on Hume, Allen Wood on Kant (as a moral philosopher), Nicholas F. Stang on Kant (as a metaphysician), Ken Gemes on Nietzsche, Cheryl Misak on Peirce, and David Macarthur on Wittgenstein. This also serves a larger philosophical purpose. Might we gain increased clarity about what philosophy is in the first place? After all, in practice we individuate philosophy partly through its greatest practitioners' greatest contributions. The book does not discuss every philosopher who has been regarded as great. The point is not to offer a definitive list of The Great Philosophers, but, rather, to learn something about what great philosophy is and might be, from illuminated examples of past greatness -- Provided by publisher.

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