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Pure - Modernity, Philosophy, and the One (Paperback, New)
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Pure - Modernity, Philosophy, and the One (Paperback, New)
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Loot Price R419
Discovery Miles 4 190
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Pure: Modernity, Philosophy, and the One is an experimental work of
philosophy in which the author aspires to think his way back to a
"premodern" worldview derived from the philosophical tradition of
Platonism. To this end he attempts to identify and elucidate the
fundamental intellectual assumptions of modernity and to subject
these assumptions to a critical evaluation from the perspective of
Platonic metaphysics. The author addresses a broad range of
subjects - from ethics, politics, metaphysics, and science to the
philosophies of Plato, Plotinus, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche -
without losing sight of the single aim of formulating a premodern
perspective in opposition to modernity. The work culminates in a
series of essays on the practice of purification, a form of
intellectual and spiritual discipline acknowledged by ancient and
medieval philosophers alike to be a necessary preliminary to
metaphysical insight. Pure is informed throughout by rigorous
scholarship, but it is not an "academic" work. The author avoids
the plodding and professorial tone typical of contemporary
philosophical research in favor of a meditative and aphoristic
style. The book, in short, is learned without being pedantic.
Readers interested in the history of philosophy and the
intellectual roots of the crisis of modernity will find in Pure
substantial matter for reflection.
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