Philosophical Finesse - Studies in the Art of Rational Persuasion

Zusatztext 'Philosophical Finesse has much to offer to many readers. It is informed and informative. It is argued tightly and lives up to the expectations it creates in the reader ... it is researched carefully and extensively.'John Poulakos! University of Pittsburgh! Philosophy and Rhetoric! Vol. 27! No. 1! 1994 Zusammenfassung The aim of this text is to provide an understanding of rationality which is broader than that which underlies today's polarization between analytic and continental philosophy. Pascal's notion of finesse is extended to designate a related set of informal but legitimate styles of argument. Inhaltsverzeichnis Philosophical reasoning: The disposition to Geometrize; Classical models of rationality: Plato, Aristotle and Cicero; On taking the Phaedo seriously; Job versus his comforters: Rival paradigms of "Wisdom"; Pascal's reasons of the heart; Hume and the education of Pamphilus; Nietzsche's philosophical hammer; Philosophical finesse; notes

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• Authors: Martin Warner, Martin (Lecturer in Philosophy Warner, Professor Martin Warner, Warner Martin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.1989
• EAN: 9780198244554
• ISBN: 978-0-19-824455-4
• No. of pages: 412
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Logic, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Philosophy: logic