The Tragedy of Reason: Towards a Platonic Conception of Logos

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Philosophy is dominated by two extreme attitudes to reason. The first, following Descartes, finds the paradigms of reason in mathematics and applied science. The second, championed by Derrida and Rorty, holds that reason is decisively over-rated and therefore in need of deconstruction. The Platonic conception of "logos" offers a third way, a tragic conception that is able to affirm the value of reason as well as to situate it properly amidst the contingencies of human life. The book aims to speak, not just to Plato scholars, but to anyone who, because of the overwhelming presence of the Cartesian attitude, has called into question the goodness of reason itself. Rather than abandoning reason and adopting the deconstructive stance which is current among many philosophers popular today, this book offers a form of Platonism as a coherent and viable middle way. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers in classics and philosophy.

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Retrieving the Ancients: An Introduction to Greek Philosophy

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Retrieving the Ancients tells the story of the first philosophers in the West. • • A clear and engaging introduction to ancient Greek philosophy. • Tells the story of the first philosophers in the West, from Thales to Aristotle. • Has a strong sense of narrative drive. • Treats the history of ancient Greek philosophy dialectically, as a conversation in which each thinker responds to and moves beyond his predecessors. • Argues that the works of the ancients are as valuable today as ever.

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(Retrieving Aristotle in an Age of Crisis) Author: David Roochnik published on (January, 2013)

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In 1935 Edmund Husserl delivered his now famous lecture Philosophy and the Crisis of European Humanity, in which he argued that the misguided rationalism of modern Western science, dominated by the model of mathematical physics, can tell us nothing about the meaning of our lives. Today Husserl s conviction that the West faces a crisis is no longer an abstraction. With the ever-present threat of nu...

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(Retrieving the Ancients: An Introduction to Greek Philosophy) Author: David Roochnik published on (June, 2004)

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Retrieving Aristotle in an Age of Crisis (SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy)

(An urgent, contemporary defense of Aristotle In 1935 Edm...)

An urgent, contemporary defense of Aristotle In 1935 Edmund Husserl delivered his now famous lecture “Philosophy and the Crisis of European Humanity,” in which he argued that the “misguided rationalism” of modern Western science, dominated by the model of mathematical physics, can tell us nothing about the “meaning” of our lives. Today Husserl’s conviction that the West faces a crisis is no longer an abstraction. With the ever-present threat of nuclear explosion, the degradation of the oceans, and the possibility that climate change will wreak havoc on civilization itself, people from all walks of life are wondering what has gone so terribly wrong and what remedies might be available. In Retrieving Aristotle in an Age of Crisis, David Roochnik makes a lucid and powerful case that Aristotle offers a philosophical resource that even today can be of significant therapeutic value. Unlike the scientific revolutionaries of the seventeenth century, he insisted that both ordinary language and sense-perception play essential roles in the acquisition of knowledge. Centuries before Husserl, Aristotle was a phenomenologist who demanded that a successful theory remain faithful to human experience. His philosophy can thus provide precisely what modern European rationalism now so painfully lacks: an understanding and appreciation of the world in which human beings actually make their homes. “Roochnik’s thorough development of the protophenomenological character of Aristotle’s work is by far the most detailed I know of, and this enables him to mount a defense of Aristotle’s relevance today that is as strong as I have read. Moreover, the polemical, passionate, and personal style is a welcome change from the dryness of too much Aristotle scholarship.” — Drew A. Hyland, author of Plato and the Question of Beauty

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