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Plato Etc: The Problems of Philosophy and their Resolution

By Roy Bhaskar

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2009
ISBN
0415454921, 9780415454926
LCC
B5134.B483 P57 2010
Open Library ID
OL10207392M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3061789 bytes)
Series
Classical Texts in Critical Realism
Edition
2nd
Pages
234\234
Time added
2012-02-21 09:19:24

Description

In this concise text, Roy Bhaskar sets out to diagnose, explain and resolve the "problems of philosophy". Plato Etc. reviews all the main areas of the subject: the theory of knowledge and philosophy of science; the philosophy of logic and language; the philosophies of space, time and causality; the philosophy of the social and life sciences and of dialectic; ethics, politics and aesthetics; and the history and sociology of philosophy.Among the issues discussed are the problems of induction and universals, the question of relativism, Heidegger’s "scandal of philosophy" (the search for a proof of the reality of the external world), the nature of moral truth and the conundrum of free will and determinism. The last two chapters consist of a synoptic account of the development of Western philosophy from the pre-Socratics to poststructuralism.Plato Etc. seeks to revindicate the philosophical project, and to demonstrate that the author’s "dialectical critical realism" has the categorical power to remedy the problem fields of philosophy. The book serves both as a critical introduction to philosophy and as an invaluable resource for the scholar.

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