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Imaginary Philosophical Dialogues

Author : Kenneth Binmore
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030653870
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Imaginary Philosophical Dialogues written by Kenneth Binmore and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How would Plato have responded if his student Aristotle had ever challenged his idea that our senses perceive nothing more than the shadows cast upon a wall by a true world of perfect ideals? What would Charles Darwin have said to Karl Marx about his claim that dialectical materialism is a scientific theory of evolution? How would Jean-Paul Sartre have reacted to Simone de Beauvoir’s claim that the Marquis de Sade was a philosopher worthy of serious attention? This light-hearted book proposes answers to such questions by imagining dialogues between thirty-three pairs of philosophical sages who were alive at the same time. Sometime famous sages get a much rougher handling than usual, as when Adam Smith beards Immanuel Kant in his Konigsberg den. Sometimes neglected or maligned sages get a chance to say what they really believed, as when Epicurus explains that he wasn’t epicurean. Sometimes the dialogues are about the origins of modern concepts, as when Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat discuss their invention of probability, or when John Nash and John von Neumann discuss the creation of game theory. Even in these scientific cases, the intention is that the protagonists come across as fallible human beings like the rest of us, rather than the intellectual paragons of philosophical textbooks.

A Dialogue on Opposing Worldviews

Author : Joseph Shrock
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1477259309
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book A Dialogue on Opposing Worldviews written by Joseph Shrock and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises the fruits of much deep thinking for decades on the issues discussed. The book is very largely a summation of the author's philosophical reading, probing, analyzing, and creative thinking involved in critiquing much philosophical literature, and deeply contemplating the implications of all that reading and analyzing. This philosophical work touches on a great variety of philosophical questions; however, the most diligent and persistent analyses revolve around questions concerning the nature of language (where reference and meaning reside), the nature of human (and animal) consciousness, and how it is that we human beings can know anything at all. Studiosus and Scepticus are the two interlocutors (debaters) in this very lively discussion. Throughout the book, they take aim at each other's worldview, and they passionately debate the pros and cons of each issue under the fires of critical analysis. The debates sometimes get into great technical detail, but they never get dull, dry or pedantic. The intellectual passions of each debater see to it that the dialogue never gets unduly bogged down in tedious details and analyses. When Scepticus and Studiosus debate, it never gets dull for very long. However, they do come head-on concerning some very difficult and deep philosophical probing and analysis. Therefore, the reader should be prepared to do some critical thinking, even if this thinking can be kept colorful and exciting.

Intellectual Entertainments

Author : P. M. S. Hacker
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1785271539
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Entertainments written by P. M. S. Hacker and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Intellectual Entertainments' consists of eight philosophical dialogues, each with five participants, some living, some imaginary and some dead. The dialogues take place either in Elysium or in an imaginary Oxford Common Room. Each historical figure speaks in his own idiom with a distinctive turn of phrase. The imaginary figures speak in the accent and idiom of their respective countries (English, Scottish, American, Australian). The themes are the nature of the mind and the relation between mind and body; the nature of consciousness and its demystification; the nature of thought and its relation to speech; and the objectivity or subjectivity of perceptual qualities such as colour, sound, smell, taste and warmth. Each participant presents a different point of view and defends his position against the arguments of the others. No philosophical knowledge is presupposed.

The Philosophical Dialogue

Author : Vittorio Hösle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780268207069
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophical Dialogue written by Vittorio Hösle and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hosle covers the development of the philosophical dialogue beginning with Plato to the late twentieth century, providing a taxonomy and doctrine of categories.

Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

Author : George Berkeley
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 : 9781437821345
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous written by George Berkeley and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This philosophical work records an imaginary dialogue by British thinker George Berkeley on the subject of materialism. It is one of the most important philosophical discussions of the eighteenth century.

Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection

Author : Walter Savage Landor
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection written by Walter Savage Landor and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This captivating book contains a unique mix of dialogues and poems. The dialogues are fictional conversations between historical figures, such as Queen Elizabeth and Cecil, Essex and Spenser, Diogenes and Plato, Dante and Beatrice, and even Oliver Cromwell and Sir Oliver Cromwell. The poems cover a range of topics and include titles like 'Fiesole Idyl', 'To Charles Dickens', and 'The Lover'.

Imaginary Dialogues in English

Author : Till Kinzel
Publisher : Universitatsverlag Winter
ISBN 13 : 9783825359898
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book Imaginary Dialogues in English written by Till Kinzel and published by Universitatsverlag Winter. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume provide exemplary readings of dialogical texts in English literature and philosophy, combining literary, linguistic, and philosophical scholarship. Plato's and other ancient writers' use of dialogue as literary form inspired many writers from Thomas More, George Berkeley, Jonathan Swift and Bernard Mandeville to Walter Savage Landor, W. H. Mallock, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Samuel Beckett, Philip Roth or Roger Scruton. From Early Modern literature and philosophy to the periods of the Enlightenment and Romanticism, this volume stresses the importance of imaginary dialogues by providing wide-ranging overviews and detailed textual analyses. Discussions of the dialogical form in Victorianism, Modernism, and Post-Modernism further extend the study to more recent major examples of the multiple functions of imaginary dialogues. Drawing on a wealth of material, this book will appeal to everyone with an interest in the complexities of literary and philosophical dialogues. The volume contains contributions by Christoph Ehland, Till Kinzel, Anja Merbitz, Jurgen Meyer, Jarmila Mildorf, Heinz-Joachim Mullenbrock, Virgil Nemoianu, Christoph Schubert, Hans Ulrich Seeber, Horst Seidl, Michael Szczekalla, and Bronwen Thomas.

Plato and the Socratic Dialogue

Author : Charles H. Kahn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521433259
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (332 download)

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Download or read book Plato and the Socratic Dialogue written by Charles H. Kahn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-09 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new interpretation of Plato's early and middle dialogues as the expression of a unified philosophical vision. Whereas the traditional view sees the dialogues as marking successive stages in Plato's philosophical development, we may more legitimately read them as reflecting an artistic plan for the gradual, indirect and partial exposition of Platonic philosophy. The magnificent literary achievement of the dialogues can be fully appreciated only from the viewpoint of a unitarian reading of the philosophical content.

In Dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff

Author : Pamela Sue Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350135003
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis In Dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff by : Pamela Sue Anderson

Download or read book In Dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff written by Pamela Sue Anderson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Michèle Le Duff creatively disrupts established notions of what philosophy might be. Far from being a discipline about the leader and the disciple, a hierarchy of knowledge and paternalism, Le Duff proposes a philosophy of dialogue and friendship. The conversations in this book explore how this philosophy can be enacted and explored, and show how openness and generosity can be the starting point of truly rigorous thinking. Introduced and curated by the late philosopher, Pamela Sue Anderson, In Dialogue with Michèle Le Duff explores themes like contemporary feminism, joy in philosophy, memory, the significance of friendship to thinking and a key Le Duffian concept, the imaginary. Le Duff's interlocutors, including Penelope Deutscher, Elizabeth Fallaize and Meenda Dhanda, are some of the most significant thinkers in the fields of feminism and continental thought and provide insights and ways into considering philosophy as a profoundly dialogical exercise.

On Freedom

Author : Nicholas J. Pappas
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162894059X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book On Freedom written by Nicholas J. Pappas and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of 'freedom' is essential to America's view of itself as a democratic and individual-based society. In this philosophical dialogue, characters assess the many facets, implications and apparent contradictions inherent in this deceptively complex idea. Seventy-nine short segments provide food for thought even in stolen moments of reading pleasure. The book sparkles with intellectually stimulating views. Drawing on the tradition of the Platonic dialogue, 'On Freedom' explores what freedom is and what it means through the discussions of two characters (Director and Friend). Topics include Slavery, Responsibility, Anarchy, Wealth, Love, Courage, Authority, Inhibition, Happiness, Discipline, Vigilance. The characters arrive at no simple or absolute definition of freedom. But that doesn't mean they don't finish with a better idea of what freedom is than when they started. If anything, they come to appreciate the need for clarity about their subject. And they come to see that such clarity necessarily involves complexity. Readers with no philosophical training can enjoy this book, while readers with a philosophy background can enjoy the way it treats an old, familiar theme with a lighter touch. Families will value 'On Freedom' for enabling younger readers, too, to explore philosophic ideas of general interest and importance.

Literary Communication as Dialogue

Author : Roger D. Sell
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027260575
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Literary Communication as Dialogue written by Roger D. Sell and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As traced by Roger D. Sell, literary communication is a process of community-making. As long as literary authors and those responding to them respect each other’s human autonomy, literature flourishes as an enjoyable, though often challenging mode of interaction that is truly dialogical in spirit. This gives rise to author-respondent communities whose members represent existential commonalities blended together with historical differences. These heterogeneous literary communities have a larger social significance, in that they have long served as counterweights to the hegemonic tendencies of modernity, and more recently to postmodernity’s well-intentioned but restrictive politics of identity. In post-postmodern times, their ethos is increasingly one of pleasurable egalitarianism. The despondent anti-hedonism of the twentieth century intelligentsia can now seem rather dated. Some of the papers selected for this volume develop Sell’s ideas in mainly theoretical terms. But most of them offer detailed criticism of particular anglophone writers, ranging from Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and other poets and dramatists of the early modern period, through Wordsworth and Coleridge, to Dickens, Pinter, and Rushdie.

Imaginary Conversations

Author : Walter Savage Landor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imaginary Conversations written by Walter Savage Landor and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Philosophy Fiction

Author : Stephen David Ross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940813103
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book A Philosophy Fiction written by Stephen David Ross and published by . This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel explores the entwining of philosophy and fiction, loving in truth and believing in images, and does so in the form of literature, full of stories, characters, animals, fabrications, and events. Inspired by Plato's dialogues, drawing on the myths and stories, the novel retraces the themes and structure of Platonic writings in an imaginary contemporary context, sometimes in reverse and upside down, to express the wonder and abundance of the world and the intimacy and fullness in every creature and thing. Each thing, all bodies and things, are other to themselves, betray themselves, express, form and deform themselves, do and undo what they are. Doing and undoing Plato, in his loving memory, with Alfred North Whitehead in mind. This is perhaps to say, in another voice: asking, telling, doing, calling, coming, giving, abounding, wondering, enchanting, betraying.

Dialogues in Limbo

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : New York : C. Scribners [1948]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Dialogues in Limbo written by George Santayana and published by New York : C. Scribners [1948]. This book was released on 1948 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictional dialogues involving mainly Greek philosophers.

Philosophy of Education in Dialogue between East and West

Author : Masamichi Ueno
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000910814
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Education in Dialogue between East and West written by Masamichi Ueno and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book opens a dialogue on theories and philosophies of education between the East and the West in the era of globalisation. A great deal of research has been devoted to discussion of the ideas of Western theorists such as Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Fröbel, Herbert, Dewey, Piaget, and so on, and their thoughts have had a tremendous impact on Japanese educational practices. In addition, the 21st-century society has promoted international academic standardisation of knowledge, skills, and competencies for a knowledge-based economy, making great strides in educational development for globalisation. On the other hand, East Asia has retained its own unique insights and perspectives that cannot entirely be understood by Western philosophies of education alone. The contributors to this volume offer the reader insights into how Japanese and East Asian theories and philosophies of education encounter those from the West, by taking up heated and controversial issues such as education of caring, morality, nature, catastrophe, body and cultivation, art, language, politics, democracy, and modernity. The book will appeal to researchers, teachers, students, policymakers, and anyone interested in the theory and philosophy of education in the East, or those who would like to reconsider education in a multicultural society.

Five Dialogues; Bearing on Poetic Inspiration; [translated by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Others. With an Introd. by A.D. Lindsay

Author : Plato
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781018554068
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Five Dialogues; Bearing on Poetic Inspiration; [translated by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Others. With an Introd. by A.D. Lindsay written by Plato and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Philosophical Dialogues

Author : Robert Morehead
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020374456
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Dialogues written by Robert Morehead and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this accessible and engaging book, Robert Morehead offers a series of dialogues on fundamental philosophical questions. From ethics and epistemology to metaphysics and the philosophy of art, Morehead explores the central themes of Western philosophy in a lively and thought-provoking style. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in philosophy and the history of ideas. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.