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The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery

By David Cooper

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2002
ISBN
0198238274, 9780198238270
Open Library ID
OL7398017M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5868346 bytes)
Pages
380\383
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to live without the sense of an independent measure. Absolutists, who proclaim our capacity to know an independent reality, exaggerate our cognitive powers. In this highly original book Cooper restores to philosophy a proper appreciation of mystery-that is what provides a measure of our beliefs and conduct.

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