This book contends that both Anglo-American analytic philosophy and
Continental philosophy have lost their vitality, and it offers an
alternative in their place, Donald Phillip Verene advocates a
renewal of contemporary philosophy through a return to its origins
in Socratic humanism and to the notions of civil wisdom, eloquence,
and prudence as guides to human action. Verene critiques reflection
-- the dominant form of philosophical thought that developed from
Descartes and Locke -- and shows that reflection is not only a
philosophical doctrine but is also connected to the life-form of
technological society. He analyzes the nature of technological
society and argues that, based on the expansion of human desire,
such a society has eliminated the values embodied in the tradition
of human folly as understood by Brant, Erasmus, and others.
Focusing in particular on the traditions of some of the late
Greeks and the Romans, Renaissance humanism, and the thought of
Giambattista Vico, this book's concern is to revive the ancient
Delphic injunction, "Know thyself", an idea of civil wisdom Verene
finds has been missing since Descartes. The author recovers the
meaning of the vital relations that poetry, myth, and rhetoric had
with philosophy in thinkers like Cicero, Quintilian, Isocrates,
Pico, Vives, and Vico. He arrives at a conception of philosophy as
a form of memory that requires both rhetoric and poetry to
accomplish self-knowledge.
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