Invisible Language
its Incalculable Significance for Philosophy
1st Edition
Published on 6. March 2014
274 pages
978-0-7391-8287-1 (ISBN)
Description
Invisible Language: Its Incalcuable Significance for Philosophy reveals that although the use of language is visible or audible, the medium employed boasts neither of these attributes. Garth L. Hallet suggests that from Plato until now, the intangibility of language has exercised a far more profound influence in philosophy than even Wittgenstein came close to demonstrating. Indeed, without that pervasive factor of language, the history of philosophy would have been undeniably different. Yet philosophy is, and can legitimately aspire to be, much more than a struggle between language and human comprehension of it. Ultimately, this book suggests that philosophy's positive possibilities, so often obscured by linguistically-inattentive practice, reach as far as human thought can reach.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-7391-8287-1 (9780739182871)
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03/2014
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Person
Garth L. Hallett is a Jesuit priest and longtime dean of the College of Philosophy and Letters at St. Louis University.
Content
Chapter 1: Plato's Phaedo
Chapter 2: Aquinas's Truth
Chapter 3: Descartes' Meditations
Chapter 4: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Chapter 5: James's Pragmatism
Chapter 6: Moore's Principia Ethica
Chapter 7: Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Chapter 8: Husserl's CartesianMeditations
Chapter 9: Confirmation
Chapter 10: Concluding Dialectic: Philosophy's Incalculable Possibilities
Chapter 2: Aquinas's Truth
Chapter 3: Descartes' Meditations
Chapter 4: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Chapter 5: James's Pragmatism
Chapter 6: Moore's Principia Ethica
Chapter 7: Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Chapter 8: Husserl's CartesianMeditations
Chapter 9: Confirmation
Chapter 10: Concluding Dialectic: Philosophy's Incalculable Possibilities
