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The Theoretic Life - A Classical Ideal and its Modern Fate - Reflections on the Liberal Arts (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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The Theoretic Life - A Classical Ideal and its Modern Fate - Reflections on the Liberal Arts (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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In this work, Alexander Rosenthal Pubul presents a broad
examination of the ancient philosophical question: "What is the
good life?", while addressing how the liberal arts can help us to
answer this question. Greek philosophy distinguished between the
"noble" (what is good in itself), from the merely "useful" (good
for something else). From thence follows the distinction between
the liberal arts which pursue such noble goods and the mechanical
arts which are only instrumental. For Aristotle, the most noble and
excellent good is wisdom itself. Hence the theoretic life devoted
to the love of wisdom for its own sake -philosophy - is the highest
and the most excellent. This work theorizes the origins of
modernity in a rebellion against this Greek conception resulting in
a complete inversion of the classical hierarchy. Sir. Francis Bacon
reconceiving the purpose of knowledge as power, enthroned
technology over philosophy and the liberal arts. The unfolding of
the modern Baconian revolution progressively sidelines the liberal
arts, as practical economic and technical utility become the
standard of value. In assessing this problem, the book engages in a
capacious journey across disciplines like philosophy, history, art,
politics, and science. It is also a veritable tour across the
Western intellectual tradition including Socrates, Plato,
Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Thomas Aquinas, Bacon, Descartes, Hume,
Kant, Nietzsche, Dewey, Berdyaev, Einstein, and Heidegger. It
pleads the urgent need to preserve the humanizing cultural ideals
of the ancient classics against the modern tyranny of utility and
the dangers of a new barbarism.
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