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Modernity and Plato: Two Paradigms of Rationality
Arbogast Schmitt
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Description for Modernity and Plato: Two Paradigms of Rationality
Hardcover. Two Paradigms of Rationality. 634 pages. Sets itself the Herculean task of comparing and reconciling the modern and Platonic concepts of rationality. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPCA. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 35. Weight: 1206. Translator(s): Adluri, Vishwa.
Sets itself the Herculean task of comparing and reconciling the modern and Platonic concepts of rationality. Modernity's break with the Middle Ages is distinguished by a comprehensive turn to a world of individual, empirical experience, a turn that was a repudiation of Plato's idea that there is a reality of rationality and intellect. Yet already in the Renaissance it was no longer thought necessary to seriously confront the "old" concept of rationality that emanates from Plato. Arbogast Schmitt's book sets itself this until-now-unfulfilled task, comparing the arguments for a life based on theory and one based on praxis in ... Read more
Sets itself the Herculean task of comparing and reconciling the modern and Platonic concepts of rationality. Modernity's break with the Middle Ages is distinguished by a comprehensive turn to a world of individual, empirical experience, a turn that was a repudiation of Plato's idea that there is a reality of rationality and intellect. Yet already in the Renaissance it was no longer thought necessary to seriously confront the "old" concept of rationality that emanates from Plato. Arbogast Schmitt's book sets itself this until-now-unfulfilled task, comparing the arguments for a life based on theory and one based on praxis in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Camden House
Number of pages
634
Condition
New
Number of Pages
634
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571134974
SKU
V9781571134974
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Reviews for Modernity and Plato: Two Paradigms of Rationality
Schmitt shows how much 'modern' thinkers have lost by turning away from what they believe to be ancient or, even worse, medieval. . . . Schmitt shows why the anti-Platonic 'turn' . . . has marginalized Plato in academic philosophy. One of Schmitt's undoubted achievements is establishing Plato's continuing importance.
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