The Knowing Animal: A Philosophical Inquiry Into Knowledge and Truth
The final volume in the trilogy, that begins with The Hand and continues with I Am, argues that knowledge is a mode of awareness unique to human beings. The difference between humans and all other sentient creatures is sufficiently important to call man 'the knowing animal'.This book examines the profound difference between knowledge-a form of awareness that things are the case-and the sentience (sensations and appetites) experienced by all animals. It goes on to reconstruct the emergence of knowledge in humans and connects this with the sense of being-a subject who encounters partially fathomable and independent objects. This account of kn…
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Weitere Autoren: Tallis, Raymond
- ISBN: 978-0-7486-1953-5
- EAN: 9780748619535
- Produktnummer: 20571134
- Verlag: Edinburgh Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 330 S.
- Masse: H23.3 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.4 cm 524 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 524
- Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.
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Rays Tallis
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