Philosophy is a dangerous profession, risking censorship, prison,
even death. And no wonder: philosophers have questioned traditional
pieties and threatened the established political order. Some
claimed to know what was thought unknowable; others doubted what
was believed to be certain. Some attacked religion in the name of
science; others attacked science in the name of mystical poetry;
some served tyrants; others were radical revolutionaries.
This historically based collection of philosophers'
reflections--the letters, journals, prefaces that reveal their
hopes and hesitations, their triumphs and struggles, their deepest
doubts and convictions--allow us to witness philosophical
thought-in-process. It sheds light on the many--and
conflicting--aims of philosophy: to express skepticism or overcome
it, to support theology or attack it, to develop an ethical system
or reduce it to practical politics. As their audiences differed,
philosophers experimented with distinctive rhetorical strategies,
writing dialogues, meditations, treatises, aphorisms. Ranging from
Plato to Hannah Arendt, with contributions from 44 philosophers
(Augustine, Maimonides, AlGhazali, Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz,
Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard,
Wittgenstein, among others) this remarkable collection documents
philosophers' claim that they change as well as understand the
world. In her introductory essay, "Witnessing Philosophers," Amelie
Rorty locates philosophers' reflections in the larger context of
the many facets of their other activities and commitments.
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