The Weak Thought and Its Strength
Dario Antiseri(Author)
Avebury (Publisher)
Published on 26. January 1996
Book
Hardback
136 pages
978-1-85972-257-2 (ISBN)
Description
This text presents Gianni Vattimo's theory of "weak reason" within the wider context of contemporary philosophy, concentrating on those who criticised the "abuse of reason" and helped define the limits of human thinking.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 157 mm
Width: 221 mm
Weight
300 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85972-257-2 (9781859722572)
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Content
Vattimo's "weak thought" - there is no unique, final, normative foundation; the "death of God" as the end of the stable structure of being; temporalization of the a priori and the eclipsing of the notion of truth; truth; truth as opening and truth as conformity; modernity and postmodenrity; hermeneutics as the common language of philosophy and culture; what is meant by "to think"; when philosophy is strong thought; why the concept of philosophy as foundational knowledge is fading; consequent problems; questions to Gianni Vattimo - weak thought and the dissolution of foundations; the arguments of weak thought; language and reality in ethnolinguistics and epistemology; relativism in inevitable but not all truth openings are equally valid; does philosophy "narrate" or "argue"?; does Vattimo manage to resolve the problem of relativism?; the irrational choice of rationalistic tradition; is there a difference between the hermeneutic theory and fallibilistic theory of science?; the end of metaphysics in weak thought and the "recovery of metaphysics" in epistemological thought; some points of agreement and another question; after Heidegger is the eschatological expectations possible?; Pierre-Daniel Huet - it is a "weak reason" which prepares the spirit to "receive the faith"; which God is dead?; is weak thought a religious thought?; is nichilism a "half-truth" or a "truth and a half"?; the Christian message - object of peitas or a question of choice?