Ordering of Time
Meditations on the History of Philosophy
Published on 25. September 2020
193 pages
978-1-4744-7858-8 (ISBN)
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What is the history of philosophy? What exactly is this the history of and how is that history to be understood in relationship to philosophy itself? Can philosophy's history, on any of a number of diverse descriptions, ever be said in its own right to constitute a unique and genuine source of philosophical wisdom or insight? George Lucas sweeps aside the constraints of traditional methodological and cultural boundaries to reflect broadly on a variety of answers to these questions, as posed by many of the major philosophical figures of the past century. Inviting a re-consideration of the work of scholars as diverse as Alasdair MacIntyre, Leo Strauss, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Bertrand Russell, Arthur Danto, Martha Nussbaum, Paul Ricoeur, Charles Taylor, Keith Lehrer and Jerome Schneewind, Lucas ranges widely over the history of philosophy itself in search of original, probing answers to these profound and perennial issues.
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Content
- Intro
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Injustice in the Margins of Time and History
- 1. Ordering Time: Thinking with the Presocratics
- 2. 'The Tragical History of Doctor Beneke'
- 3. Philosophy's Recovery of its History
- 4. Three Rival Conceptions of the History of Philosophy
- 5. Art, Philosophy, and the Shapes of the Past
- 6. A New Methodology for Philosophy
- 7. The Critique of Enlightenment and the Question Concerning Metaphysics
- 8. Scientific Revolutions and the Search for Covariant Metaphysical Principles
- 9. 'People without a Name'
- Bibliography
- Index
