
Knowledge, Being and the Human
Some of the Major Issues in Philosophy
Jan Hartman(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 25. September 2013
Book
Hardback
196 pages
978-3-631-62285-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book, in the form of a classical philosophical treatise, presents a large-scale theoretical project: It uses a metaphilosophical perspective to present the framework for postmetaphysical thinking, situating it in the domain of the metaphysics of morality. It offers an innovative defence of scepticism based on a critical and radical analysis of the concepts of knowledge and truth. Metaphysical and transcendental traditions are deconstructed, mainly in relation to the paradoxes of so-called realism and idealism, which are the consequence of dependence on an archaic substance theory. Moreover, the book proposes a certain form of philosophising in spite of everything, i.e. within a sceptical approach. The critique of ethics leads to an a-ethical concept of the will and the values of life.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
375 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-631-62285-8 (9783631622858)
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-03707-4
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E-Book
11/2013
150th Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
€68.29
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Person
Jan Hartman, born in 1967 in Wroclaw (Poland), is Full Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Bioethics at the Medical School of Jagiellonian University. He is author of several books in metaphilosophy, political philosophy, ethics and bioethics.
Content
Contents: Metaphilosophy - Theory of Knowledge - Theory of Truth - Skepticism and its Defence - New Critique of Classical Metaphysics and the Transcendental Tradition - Theory of Good Will - Perspectives of the Metaphysics of Morality.