Measure of Things - Humanism, Humility, and Mystery

Zusatztext David Cooper has written an extraordinarily rich, deep, thought-provoking book. It is remarkable for its range and its erudition. Cooper engages freely with both eastern and western traditions, with both "continental" and "analytic" traditions, and with both past and contemporary traditions. . . . I think this is a superb book. It amply rewards close and repeated study. Klappentext David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to live without the sense of an independent measure. Absolutists, who proclaim our capacity to know an independent reality, exaggerate our cognitive powers. In this highly original book Cooper restores to philosophy a proper appreciation of mystery-that is what provides a measure of our beliefs and conduct. Zusammenfassung Explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a 'mystery'. This book restores to philosophy an appreciation of mystery - that is what provides a measure of our beliefs and conduct. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1: Introduction 2: Self-assertion: from 'Ockhamism' to the Renaissance 3: Reason and Agency: Enlightenment, Kant and Romanticism 4: Prometheanism Unbound: from Marx and Nietzsche to Pragmatism 5: Existential Humanism 6: Interlude: Rival Humanisms 7: Belief, Posture and Humility 8: The Hubris of Absolutism 9: The Hubris of Humanism (1) 10: The Hubris of Humanism (2) 11: Mystery 12: Emptiness and Mystery 13: Mystery and Measure Index

Product details

• Authors: David Cooper, David E. Cooper
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2002
• EAN: 9780198238270
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823827-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / Eastern, RELIGION / Philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy of religion, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, East Asian and Indian philosophy, Oriental & Indian philosophy