
Dialectic
Mortimer J. Adler(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2000
Book
Hardback
276 pages
978-0-415-22550-2 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 2000. This is Volume I of eight in the International Library of Philosophy looking at the area pf philosophy of Mind an Language. Written in 1927, Dialectic is a convenient technical name for the kind of thinking which takes place when human beings enter into dispute, or when they carry on in reflection the polemical consideration of some theory or idea. This text is an attempt to examine the circumstances and conditions of controversy in order to understand what are its inescapable limitations, its intellectual traits and values.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
482 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-22550-2 (9780415225502)
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Person
Mortimer J Adler
Content
Part 1 Dialectic; Part I The Discovery of Dialectic; Chapter 1 Introductory; Chapter 2 Traits of Controversy; Chapter 3 Specimens of Human Discourse; Part II The Description of Dialectic; Chapter 1a The Empirical Description: Language; Chapter 2a The Logical Description; Chapter 3a The Metaphysical Description; Part III The Interpretation of Dialectic; Chapter 1b Philosophy and Science; Chapter 2b The Subject-matter of a Summa Dialectica; Chapter 3b The Dialectical Attitude;


