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Title

Concept audits : a philosophical method / Nicholas Rescher.

Author

Rescher, Nicholas

Publication

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]

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Description

ix, 184 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Childlike Peace in Merleau-Ponty and Levinas argues that the primordial structure of our personal encounters with others should be understood as a dialectical spiral. Drawing on the work of twentieth-century philosophers Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Levinas, and informed by recent advances in cognitive neuroscience and child development, Brock Bahler develops a phenomenological description of the parent-child relationship in order to articulate an account of intersubjectivity that is fundamentally ethically oriented, dialogical, and mutually dynamic. This dialectical spiral in contrast to Cartesian tradition of the subject and the Hegelian master-slave dialectic suggests that our lives are equiprimordially interwoven with both the richness of mutual engagement and the responsibility to be for-the-other. The parent-child relationship provides the basis for a theoretical account of intersubjectivity that is marked by a creative interaction between self and other that cannot be reduced to an economic exchange, a totalizing structure, or a unilateral asymmetrical responsibility. --

Subject

• Methodology
• Concepts
• Concepts
• Methodology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. I METHODOLOGY -- 1. Introduction: The Concept Auditing Process -- pt. II SOME HISTORICAL APPLICATIONS -- 2. The Socratic Method as an Illustration -- 3. Neo-Platonic Wholes -- 4. Descartes and Generalization -- 5. Spinoza on Things and Ideas -- 6. Kantian Absolutism in Moral Theory -- 7. Mill on Desirability -- 8. Ordinary-Language Philosophy on the Nature of Knowing -- 9. Russell-Gettier on the Analysis of Knowledge -- 10. Concept Dialectics in Historical Perspective -- 11. Metaphysical Illusions -- pt. III FURTHER ILLUSTRATIVE APPLICATIONS -- 12. Who Dun It? -- 13. Existence: To Be Or Not To Be -- 14. Explanatory Regression -- 15. The Fallacy of Respect Neglect -- 16. Appearance and Reality -- 17. On Truth about Reality -- 18. Sameness and Change -- 19. Origination Issues -- 20. Shaping Ideas -- 21. Construing Necessitation -- 22. Conceptual Horizons -- 23. Language Limits -- 24. On Certainty -- 25. Timeless Truth? -- 26. Assessing Acceptability -- 27. Value Neutrality in Science -- 28. Personhood and Obligation -- 29. Control Issues -- 30. Fairness Problems -- 31. The Ethics of Delegation -- 32. Doing Unto Others -- 33. Faux Quantities -- 34. Luck versus Fortune -- 35. The Problem of Progress -- 36. Issues of Excellence -- 37. Problems of Perfection -- pt. IV CONCLUSION -- 38. Concluding Observations.

ISBN

• 9781498540391
• 1498540392

LCCN

^^2016023402

OCLC

950611368

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library