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Wisdom Won from Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
Jonathan Lear
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Hardback. Can reason absorb the psyche's nonrational elements into a conception of the fully realized human being? Without a good answer to that question, Jonathan Lear says, philosophy is cut from its moorings in human life. He brings into conversation psychoanalysis and moral philosophy, which together form a basis for ethical thought about how to live. Num Pages: 330 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 244 x 31. Weight in Grams: 662.
Wisdom Won from Illness brings into conversation two fields of humane inquiry--psychoanalysis and moral philosophy--that seem to have little to say to each other but which, taken together, form a basis for engaged ethical thought about how to live. Jonathan Lear begins by looking to the ancient Greek philosophers for insight into what constitutes the life well lived. Socrates said the human psyche should be ruled by reason, and much philosophy as well as psychology hangs on what he meant. For Aristotle, reason organized and presided over the harmonious soul; a wise person is someone capable of ... Read more
Wisdom Won from Illness brings into conversation two fields of humane inquiry--psychoanalysis and moral philosophy--that seem to have little to say to each other but which, taken together, form a basis for engaged ethical thought about how to live. Jonathan Lear begins by looking to the ancient Greek philosophers for insight into what constitutes the life well lived. Socrates said the human psyche should be ruled by reason, and much philosophy as well as psychology hangs on what he meant. For Aristotle, reason organized and presided over the harmonious soul; a wise person is someone capable of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
330
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674967847
SKU
V9780674967847
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About Jonathan Lear
Jonathan Lear is John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He is also the Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society.
Reviews for Wisdom Won from Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
What resources does psychoanalysis provide for those who seek to understand their lives in broadly Aristotelian terms? Jonathan Lear has given an unusually interesting and insightful answer to this question.
Alasdair MacIntyre, University of Notre Dame This book makes original, insightful, and important contributions to the interpretation of Plato and Aristotle, to philosophical psychology in general, and to psychoanalysis and the ... Read more
Alasdair MacIntyre, University of Notre Dame This book makes original, insightful, and important contributions to the interpretation of Plato and Aristotle, to philosophical psychology in general, and to psychoanalysis and the ... Read more