|
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism
|
Buy Now
Husserl and the Question of Relativism (Hardcover, 1991 ed.)
Loot Price: R3,016
Discovery Miles 30 160
|
|
|
Husserl and the Question of Relativism (Hardcover, 1991 ed.)
Series: Phaenomenologica, 122
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
The question of relativism is a perennial one, and as fundamental
and far reaching as the question of truth itself. Is truth absolute
and universal, the same everywhere and for everyone? Or is truth
historically, culturally, biologically, or otherwise relative,
varying from one epoch or species to another? Although the issues
surrounding relativism have attracted especially intense interest
of late, they continue to spark heated controversies and to pose
problems lacking an obvious resolution. On the side of one
prevalent form of relativism, it is argued that we must finally
recognize the historical and cultural contingency of our available
means of cognition, and therefore abandon as naIve the absolute
conception of truth dear to traditional philosophy. According to
this line of thinking, even if there were univer sally valid
principles, knowledge of them would not be possible for us, and
thus an absolute conception of truth must be rejected in light of
the demands of critical epistemology. However, when truth is
accordingly relativized to some contingent subjective cognitive
background, new difficulties arise. One of the most infamous of
these is the logical inconsistency of the resulting thesis of
relativism itself. Yet an even more serious problem is that the
relativization of truth makes truth itself contingent, thereby
undermining the motivation for preferring one belief or value to
another, or even to its opposite."
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
