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The Beautiful, The True and the Good - Studies in the History of Thought (Hardcover)
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The Beautiful, The True and the Good - Studies in the History of Thought (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy Series
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How do we understand the notions of the beautiful, the true, and
the good, and how do they help us to know, to understand?
Philosopher Robert E. Wood considers appeal respectively to the
heart, to the intellect, and to the will. In our minds, their
interplay beckons each of us to assimilate one's past, and look
forward towards further endeavours. They also set up what Wood
calls a ""dialogical imperative"" to speak from where we stand and
to stand in place of the Other, the person facing us, as well. The
order follows Plato's claim that the love of Beauty is the light of
the Good that grounds our pursuit of the True. Human experience,
according to Wood, has a ""magnetically bipolar"" character, rooted
in organically based desires. Yet that experience is aimed, through
the all-encompassing notion of Being, at the absolute totality of
what is. The notion of Being affords a distance that grounds both
understanding and choice. Culture enters in as well. Its
developments, initially empty in relation to the totality, come to
occupy the space of meaning between the here-and-now and the
totality. Each human being's genetic endowments interplay with
one's cultural shaping. Taking them up, each individual sets up a
unique field of attractions and repulsions belonging to the heart
as one's radically individual center. Wood proceeds from this
phenomenological basis to consider key thinkers from Heraclitus and
Parmenides, to Heidegger, Buber, and Marcel. He seeks, in this
collection of essays from the past forty years, to develop a
""fusion of horizons"" with them, as part of an on-going broader
philosophical dialogue that constitutes the history of thought, now
and to come.
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