Author: Charles E. HooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Common sense
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Common Sense and the Rudiments of Philosophy
Author: Charles E. HooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Common sense
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Common Sense and the Rudiments of Philosophy
Author: Charles E. HooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Common sense
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
America and the Political Philosophy of Common Sense
Author: Scott Philip SegrestPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 082627207X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
From Aristotle to Thomas Jefferson, seminal thinkers have declared “common sense” essential for moral discernment and civilized living. Yet the story of commonsense philosophy is not well known today. In America and the Political Philosophy of Common Sense, Scott Segrest traces the history and explores the personal and social meaning of common sense as understood especially in American thought and as reflected specifically in the writings of three paradigmatic thinkers: John Witherspoon, James McCosh, and William James. The first two represent Scottish Common Sense and the third, Pragmatism, the schools that together dominated American higher thought for nearly two centuries. Educated Americans of the founding period warmly received Scottish Common Sense, Segrest writes, because it reflected so well what they already thought, and he uncovers the basic elements of American common sense in examining the thought of Witherspoon, who introduced that philosophy to them. With McCosh, he shows the furthest development and limits of the philosophy, and with it of American common sense in its Scottish realist phase. With James, he shows other dimensions of common sense that Americans had long embraced but that had never been examined philosophically. Clearly, Segrest’s work is much more than an intellectual history. It is a study of the American mind and of common sense itself—its essential character and its human significance, both moral and political. It was common sense, he affirms, that underlay the Declaration of Independence and the founders’ ideas of right and obligation that are still with us today. Segrest suggests that understanding this foundation and James’s refreshing of it could be the key to maintaining America’s vital moral core against a growing alienation from common sense across the Western world. Stressing the urgency of understanding and preserving common sense, Segrest’s work sheds new light on an undervalued aspect of American thought and experience, helping us to perceive the ramifications of commonsense philosophy for dignified living.
The Philosophical Review
Author: Mind
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
A quarterly review of philosophy.
The Journal of Philosophy
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Covers topics in philosophy, psychology, and scientific methods. Vols. 31- include "A Bibliography of philosophy," 1933-
The Humanist
Author: Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods
Author: The Literary Guide and Rationalist Review
Author: The Rediscovery of Common Sense Philosophy
Author: S. BoulterPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230223133
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This book is a defence of the philosophy of common sense in the spirit of Thomas Reid and G.E. Moore, drawing on the work of Aristotle, evolutionary biology and psychology, and historical studies on the origins of early modern philosophy. It defines and explores common sense beliefs, and defends them from challenges from prominent philosophers.