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JOHN WISDOM AND THE BREADTH OF PHILOSOPHY hham Dhman 1. THE ESSAYS
IN THIS VOLUME The essays following the two pieces by John Wisdom
have all been written by philosophers who are former students or
friends of Wisdom or who have a high regard for his work. Their
contributions were all written with him in mind and to be discussed
at a conference honouring his work. This conference was held in
August 1983 at Trinity College, Cambridge, of which Wisdom has been
a fellow since 1935. Wisdom is a master of discursive reasoning and
one of his distinctive contributions in philosophy has been to
examine its various forms and their interconnections, particularly
the form it takes in philosophical inquiry and the way it advances
our understanding there. His concern to bring out the links between
all that is abstract in such reasoning and the concrete and
particular is well known and represented in many of the essays in
this volume. But Wisdom has also a deep appreciation of the kind of
understanding that is advanced non-discursively. As he puts it in
the first piece in this volume: However skilled a good critic 'I am
sure that much of what makes "Hamlet" "Hamlet" will run between his
fingers'. He has himself advanced our understanding on many
questions in philosophy in this way, not simply by what he has
said, but also by what he has suggested 'between the lines'.
The way an individual's psychology is intertwined with their
morality is the subject of this fascinating book from the pen of
the late Ilham Dilman. Dilman convincingly argues that evil, though
it cannot be reduced to psychological terms (it is a moral concept)
is explicable in terms of an individual person's psychology.
Goodness, by contrast, comes from the person and not their
psychology. Philosophers the world over will want to read this book
and see how Dilman skilfully defends his arguments.
In this, his final book, noted philosopher Ilham Dilman offers
sharp critiques of his major contemporaries. "Philosophy of
Criticism" is both the final word from a celebrated philosopher on
his distinguished career and an attempt, through critiques of his
major contemporaries, to explore the future of philosophy. Born in
Turkey, Ilham Dilman spent the majority of his working life
teaching philosophy in the United States and Great Britain and
published widely in moral philosophy and psychology, most notably
on Wittgenstein and Freud. After an autobiographical introduction,
in which Dilman reflects on how he came to become a philosopher, he
moves, chapter by chapter, into an incisive critique of key
contemporary thinkers and movements in philosophy. Dilman asks us
to review afresh the contributions of Dennett, Searle, Foot,
Davidson and Nozick to the modern debate. The result is a vital and
urgent engagement with the core questions of philosophy and a
re-instatement of the centrality of criticism in philosophy.
What is the place of human free will in our lives if all our
actions are the result of some other cause? Does our processing
unconscious beliefs or desires make us less free? Is our free will
necessarily restricted if we do not choose our own beliefs?
The debate between free will and its opposing doctrine,
determinism, is one of the key issues in philosophy. Free Will: An
historical and philosophical introduction provides a comprehensive
introduction to this highly important question and examines the
contributions made by sixteen of the most outstanding thinkers from
the time of early Greece to the twentieth century:
*Homer *Sophocles *Platto *Aristotle *St Augustine *St Thomas
Aquinas *Descaartes *Spinoza *Hume *Kant *Schopehauer *Freud
*Sartre *Weil *Wittgenstein *Moore
Ilham Dilman brings together all the dimensions of the problem of
free will with examples from literature, ethics and psychoanalysis.
Drawing out valuable insights from both sides of the free
will-determinism divide, and he provides an accessible and highly
readable introduction to this perennial problem.
The way an individual's psychology is intertwined with their
morality is the subject of this fascinating book from the pen of
the late Ilham Dilman.
Dilman convincingly argues that evil, though it cannot be reduced
to psychological terms (it is a moral concept) is explicable in
terms of an individual person's psychology. Goodness, by contrast,
comes from the person and not their psychology.
Philosophers the world over will want to read this book and see how
Dilman skilfully defends his arguments.
JOHN WISDOM AND THE BREADTH OF PHILOSOPHY hham Dhman 1. THE ESSAYS
IN THIS VOLUME The essays following the two pieces by John Wisdom
have all been written by philosophers who are former students or
friends of Wisdom or who have a high regard for his work. Their
contributions were all written with him in mind and to be discussed
at a conference honouring his work. This conference was held in
August 1983 at Trinity College, Cambridge, of which Wisdom has been
a fellow since 1935. Wisdom is a master of discursive reasoning and
one of his distinctive contributions in philosophy has been to
examine its various forms and their interconnections, particularly
the form it takes in philosophical inquiry and the way it advances
our understanding there. His concern to bring out the links between
all that is abstract in such reasoning and the concrete and
particular is well known and represented in many of the essays in
this volume. But Wisdom has also a deep appreciation of the kind of
understanding that is advanced non-discursively. As he puts it in
the first piece in this volume: However skilled a good critic 'I am
sure that much of what makes "Hamlet" "Hamlet" will run between his
fingers'. He has himself advanced our understanding on many
questions in philosophy in this way, not simply by what he has
said, but also by what he has suggested 'between the lines'.
What is the place of human free will in our lives if all our actions are the result of some other cause? Does our processing unconscious beliefs or desires make us less free? Is our free will necessarily restricted if we do not choose our own beliefs? The debate between free will and its opposing doctrine, determinism, is one of the key issues in philosophy. Free Will: An historical and philosophical introduction provides a comprehensive introduction to this highly important question and examines the contributions made by sixteen of the most outstanding thinkers from the time of early Greece to the twentieth century: *Homer *Sophocles *Platto *Aristotle *St Augustine *St Thomas Aquinas *Descaartes *Spinoza *Hume *Kant *Schopehauer *Freud *Sartre *Weil *Wittgenstein *Moore Ilham Dilman brings together all the dimensions of the problem of free will with examples from literature, ethics and psychoanalysis. Drawing out valuable insights from both sides of the free will-determinism divide, and he provides an accessible and highly readable introduction to this perennial problem.
Author Ilham Dilman explains why a "thoughtful psychology",
encompassing the varied modes of being experienced by humans, is
the best tool for investigating the nature of good and evil. To
illustrate, he employs Raskolnikov, Dostoyevsky's axe-murdering
protagonist in Crime and Punishment, following his alienation from
goodness, his return to it, and finally, his ethical rebirth.
In this, his final book, noted philosopher Ilham Dilman offers
sharp critiques of his major contemporaries. "Philosophy of
Criticism" is both the final word from a celebrated philosopher on
his distinguished career and an attempt, through critiques of his
major contemporaries, to explore the future of philosophy. Born in
Turkey, Ilham Dilman spent the majority of his working life
teaching philosophy in the United States and Great Britain and
published widely in moral philosophy and psychology, most notably
on Wittgenstein and Freud. After an autobiographical introduction,
in which Dilman reflects on how he came to become a philosopher, he
moves, chapter by chapter, into an incisive critique of key
contemporary thinkers and movements in philosophy. Dilman asks us
to review afresh the contributions of Dennett, Searle, Foot,
Davidson and Nozick to the modern debate. The result is a vital and
urgent engagement with the core questions of philosophy and a
re-instatement of the centrality of criticism in philosophy.
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