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In Dialogue with the Greeks - Volume I: The Presocratics and Reality (Hardcover, New Ed)
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In Dialogue with the Greeks - Volume I: The Presocratics and Reality (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Ashgate Wittgensteinian Studies
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This first of two volumes on the Greeks by Rush Rhees addresses the
central philosophical question: In what sense does philosophy
investigate reality? In answering this question, Rhees brings the
work of the Presocratics into close relation with contemporary
philosophy. D.Z. Phillips's editorial commentary is particularly
helpful in assisting the reader with their bearings as they
approach the text and in elucidating the developments in Rhees's
thinking. How is the philosophical investigation of reality
different from that of science and can it be said that science
investigates aspects of reality, whereas philosophy investigates
reality as such? In this first volume Rhees affirms that most of
the Presocratics seemed to be seeking a science of being qua being,
looking for an essence of reality that simply is. Rhees asks, if
the existence of reality cannot be denied, then how can it be
asserted either? Does it make sense to say that reality exists? If
we speak of something existing, we speak of the conditions of its
existence that are independent of the 'something' in question, so
how can this be said about reality? What conditions can be other
than reality itself? Rhees argues that whatever unity reality has,
it cannot be the unity of a thing. Rhees brings out how individual
Presocratics are aware of their predecessors' difficulties, only to
fall prey to new difficulties of their own. Rhees suggests that
what is philosophically deep in their questionings can be found in
discussing the relation of discourse and reality. Does what we say
to each other depend on an underlying logic that determines what
can and cannot be said, or on a system of unchanging meanings; or
is the distinction between sense and nonsense rooted in our actual
ways of thinking and acting? In discussing these Wittgensteinian
themes, Rhees is not simply elucidating the Presocratics but is in
dialogue with them.
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