Concerning Human Understanding

ISBN-13: 9781032572345 / Twarda / 2023 / 332 str.

Nikunja Vihari Banerjee

Opis

First published in 1958 Concerning Human Understanding treats the chief problems of philosophy. It offers a restatement of the problems of knowledge, attempts a solution of the conflict between science and philosophy and handles the baffling problem: ‘is metaphysics possible?’

Spis treści

Preface Part I: Prolegomena to a Theory of Knowledge 1. Towards a Theory of Sense-perception 2. The Problem and Postulates of a Theory of Knowledge 3. Whither Consciousness? 4. The Doctrine of Inner Sense 5. Sense-data, Perception and Self-knowledge Part II: Our Knowledge of the External World 1. Introduction 2. The Common-sense View of Our Knowledge of the External World 3. The Idealistic View of Our Knowledge of the External World 4. Perceiving as Interpreting 5. The Theory of a priori Construction from the Data of Sense 6. The Theory of Logical Construction from Sense-data 7. Interpreting the World 8. Can philosophy Interpret the World? Part III: What, Then, Is Philosophy? 1. Introduction 2. Philosophy as Epistemology 3. The Metaphysical Attitude 4. Transcendental Discovery of Self as Subject 5. The Problem of Self and Metaphysics 6. Philosophy as Axiology – Theoretical and Applied 7. Value and the Problem of Self 8. The Nature of Self 9. The Philosophy of Self and the Practical Problem of Human Life 10. The Problem of the Fundamental Practical Principle 11. Ideal Life and the Idea of Practical Reason Part IV: Religion within the Bounds of Practical Reason 1. The Religion that Fails 2. The Problem of Religion 3. Religion- The Great Event in Human Life 4. Religion in Travail 5. Towards the Religion of Man Index

O autorze

Nikunja Vihari Banerjee