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Modernity and Plato - Two Paradigms of Rationality (Hardcover)
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Modernity and Plato - Two Paradigms of Rationality (Hardcover)
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Sets itself the Herculean task of comparing and reconciling the
modern and Platonic concepts of rationality. Modernity's break with
the Middle Ages is distinguished by a comprehensive turn to a world
of individual, empirical experience, a turn that was a repudiation
of Plato's idea that there is a reality of rationality and
intellect. Yet already in the Renaissance it was no longer thought
necessary to seriously confront the "old" concept of rationality
that emanates from Plato. Arbogast Schmitt's book sets itself this
until-now-unfulfilled task, comparing the arguments for a life
based on theory and one based on praxis in order to provide a
balance sheet of profit and loss. Showing that the Enlightenment
did not, as often assumed, discover rationality, but instead a
different concept of rationality, the book opens one's view to
other forms of rationality and new possibilities of reconciliation
with one's own - that is, Western - history. Modernity and Plato
was hailed upon its publication in Germany (2003, revised 2008) as
"one of the most important philosophy books of the past few years,"
as "a book that belongs, without any doubt, in the great tradition
of German philosophy," and as "a provocative thesis on the
antiquity-modernity debate." It is a major contribution to
synthetic philosophy and philosophical historiography, in English
for the first time. Arbogast Schmitt is Honorary Professor at the
Institute for Greek and Latin Philology at Free University, Berlin
and Emeritus Professor of Classical Philology and Greek at the
University of Marburg, Germany. Vishwa Adluri teaches in the
Departments of Religion and Philosophy at Hunter College, City
Universityof New York.
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