Invisible Language (eBook)

Its Incalculable Significance for Philosophy

Garth L. Hallett (Autor)

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2014
274 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-8287-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Invisible Language: Its Incalcuable Significance for Philosophy affirms that a greater awareness of language, philosophy's universal medium, could have altered the history of philosophy beyond recognition. Striking a balance between in-depth studies and more over-arching discussions, Garth L. Hallet proves the greatness of the possibilities of philosophy conducted with fuller linguistic awareness.

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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.

Autor

Garth L. Hallett is a Jesuit priest and longtime dean of the College of Philosophy and Letters at St. Louis University.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Plato’s PhaedoChapter 2: Aquinas’s TruthChapter 3: Descartes’ MeditationsChapter 4: Kant’s Critique of Pure ReasonChapter 5: James’s PragmatismChapter 6: Moore’s Principia EthicaChapter 7: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-PhilosophicusChapter 8: Husserl’s CartesianMeditationsChapter 9: ConfirmationChapter 10: Concluding Dialectic: Philosophy’s Incalculable Possibilities

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.3.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Aquinas • Descartes • G. E. Moore • Husserl • Kant • Plato • William James • Wittgenstein
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-8287-0 / 0739182870
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-8287-1 / 9780739182871