This book is inspired by a single powerful question. What is it to
be great as a philosopher? No single grand answer is presumed to be
possible; instead, rewardingly close studies of philosophical
greatness are developed. This is a scholarly yet accessible volume,
blending metaphilosophy with the long history of philosophy and
traversing centuries and continents. The result is a series of case
studies by accomplished scholars, each chapter trying to understand
and convey a particular philosopher's greatness: Lloyd P. Gerson on
Plato Karyn Lai on Zhuangzi David Bronstein on Aristotle Jonardon
Ganeri on Buddhaghosa Jeffrey Hause on Aquinas Gary Hatfield on
Descartes Karen Detlefsen on du Chatelet Don Garrett on Hume Allen
Wood on Kant (as a moral philosopher) Nicholas F. Stang on Kant (as
a metaphysician) Ken Gemes on Nietzsche Cheryl Misak on Peirce
David Macarthur on Wittgenstein This also serves a larger
philosophical purpose. Might we gain increased clarity about what
philosophy is in the first place? After all, in practice we
individuate philosophy partly through its greatest practitioners'
greatest contributions. The book does not discuss every philosopher
who has been regarded as great. The point is not to offer a
definitive list of The Great Philosophers, but, rather, to learn
something about what great philosophy is and might be, from
illuminated examples of past greatness.
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