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First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
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.
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
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.
This second of two volumes on the Greeks by Rush Rhees takes up the
questions bequeathed by the previous volume. If reality does not
have the unity of a thing, can it have any kind of unity at all?
The alternative seems to be that reality has the unity of a form.
In this volume Rhees brings the perspective of a modern
Wittgensteinian philosopher to bear on the dialogues of Plato. In
his treatment of the Georgias and the Symposium Rhees emphasizes
Socrates' claim that it is important to seek understanding although
one cannot say, in the form of a theory or philosophical thesis,
what that understanding amounts to. In considering the Phaedo,
Theaetetus, Parmenides and Timaeus, Rhees pursues these questions
in a way which relates them to live issues concerning the relation
between logic and discourse. Rhees shows that Plato's Forms can
neither be thought of by analogy with 'ultimate' particles in
physics, nor as fixed concepts that determine what can and cannot
be said. Finally, D. Z. Phillips includes two treatments by Rhees
of the Republic separated by fifteen years. In the first he
criticises Plato for a fixed view that an order predetermines and
makes possible growth in understanding, showing how this is the
very antithesis of growth. In the second he returns to the tension
in Plato's thought between 'answerability to reality' and the view
that understanding and growth can only be achieved through a
seeking in dialogue. Rhees concludes that language is not a
collection of isolated games, rather we speak in the course of
lives that we lead and what we say has its meaning from the place
it occupies in the course of a life.
This two volume set of Rush Rhees's In Dialogue with the Greeks
brings together Rhees's work on the Presocratics and on Plato. The
first volume 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. The second volume takes up
the questions bequeathed by the first. If reality does not have the
unity of a thing, can it have any kind of unity at all? The
alternative seems to be that reality has the unity of a form. In
this second volume Rhees brings the perspective of a modern
Wittgensteinian philosopher to bear on the dialogues of Plato
concluding that language is not a collection of isolated games,
rather we speak in the course of lives that we lead and what we say
has its meaning from the place it occupies in the course of a life.
D.Z. Phillips' editorial commentary is particularly helpful in
assisting the reader with their bearings as they approach the text
and elucidating the developments in Rhees's thinking.
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Without robbing boyhood days of their naturalness and reality, we
may be sure that long before Jesus knew how and why he differed
from his fellows he felt more or less clearly that they were not
like him. The resulting sense of isolation was a school for
self-mastery, lest isolation foster any such pride or unloveliness
as that with which later legend dared to stain the picture of the
Lord's youth. -from "The Growth of Jesus" This fanciful 1900
"biography" of the central figure of one of the world's great
religions is based as much upon the author's faith as it is any
Scriptural or historical sources-indeed, Rhees calls it more "a
study rather than a story... a companion to the reading of the
gospels." Believers will find comfort in Rhees's soothing,
authoritative prose, but this is a vital work for all those who
seek to understand the complex society of contemporary
Christianity. RUSH RHEES was the third president of the University
of Rochester. He wrote extensively on ethics, philosophy, and
religion; among his works are Wittgenstein and the Possibility of
Discourse and Without Answers.
Without robbing boyhood days of their naturalness and reality, we
may be sure that long before Jesus knew how and why he differed
from his fellows he felt more or less clearly that they were not
like him. The resulting sense of isolation was a school for
self-mastery, lest isolation foster any such pride or unloveliness
as that with which later legend dared to stain the picture of the
Lord's youth. -from "The Growth of Jesus" This fanciful 1900
"biography" of the central figure of one of the world's great
religions is based as much upon the author's faith as it is any
Scriptural or historical sources-indeed, Rhees calls it more "a
study rather than a story... a companion to the reading of the
gospels." Believers will find comfort in Rhees's soothing,
authoritative prose, but this is a vital work for all those who
seek to understand the complex society of contemporary
Christianity. RUSH RHEES was the third president of the University
of Rochester. He wrote extensively on ethics, philosophy, and
religion; among his works are Wittgenstein and the Possibility of
Discourse and Without Answers.
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