Understanding Understanding
A study of the scope and limits of understanding.How is understanding to be understood? Are there limits to understanding? What of importance, if anything, could lie beyond understanding? And do we need to understand knowledge before we can know about understanding? Richard Mason's argument is that a critical theory of under¬standing, modeled on past theories of knowledge, cannot be workable.Understanding may bring wisdom: an uncomfort¬able thought for many philosophers in the twentieth century. Yet philosophy aims at expanding understanding at least as much as knowledge. How we understand understanding affects how we understand philosophy. I…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7914-8612-2
- EAN: 9780791486122
- Produktnummer: 35072050
- Verlag: State University of New York Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 140 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'882 KB
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