Knowledge, Being and the Human
Some of the Major Issues in Philosophy
©2013
Monographs
196 Pages
Open Access
Series:
Studies in Philosophy, History of Ideas and Modern Societies, Volume 5
Summary
This book, in the form of a classical philosophical treatise, presents a large-scale theoretical project: It uses a metaphilosophical perspective to present the framework for postmetaphysical thinking, situating it in the domain of the metaphysics of morality. It offers an innovative defence of scepticism based on a critical and radical analysis of the concepts of knowledge and truth. Metaphysical and transcendental traditions are deconstructed, mainly in relation to the paradoxes of so-called realism and idealism, which are the consequence of dependence on an archaic substance theory. Moreover, the book proposes a certain form of philosophising in spite of everything, i.e. within a sceptical approach. The critique of ethics leads to an a-ethical concept of the will and the values of life.
Details
- Pages
- 196
- Publication Year
- 2013
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783653037074
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631622858
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-3-653-03707-4
- Open Access
- CC-BY-NC-ND
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2013 (November)
- Keywords
- Metaphilosophy theory of knowledge theory of truth theory of good will transcendental tradition scepticism and its defence
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. 196 pp.
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