The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery

ISBN-13: 9780198238270 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 380 str.

David Cooper

Opis

David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to live without the sense of an independent measure. Absolutists, who proclaim our capacity to know an independent reality, exaggerate our cognitive powers. In this highly original book Cooper restores to philosophy a proper appreciation of mystery-that is what provides a measure of our beliefs and conduct.

Recenzje

David Cooper has written an extraordinarily rich, deep, thought-provoking book. It is remarkable for its range and its erudition. Cooper engages freely with both eastern and western traditions, with both "continental" and "analytic" traditions, and with both past and contemporary traditions. . . . I think this is a superb book. It amply rewards close and repeated study.