Title
Thinking about Thinking : What Kind of Conversation Is Philosophy? / Adriaan T. Peperzak.
ISBN
9780823293353
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (222 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1515/9780823293353 doi
Summary
Thinking about Thinking examines philosophy from a variety of perspectives as a practice realized by persons who communicate with one another while reflecting about the meaning of human life and thought. Without forgetting the logical and methodological conditions of systematic thought, the author insists on the intimate connections that tie all philosophical texts and conversations to the lives from which they emerge. As product of an individual thinker, who, thanks to individual teachers, has been familiarized with particular traditions of a particular culture, each philosophy is unique. If it is a good one, it is also revealing for many-perhaps even for all-other philosophers. At the same time, all thinking is addressed to individual interlocutors, each of whom responds to it by transforming it into a different philosophy. This fact invites us to explore the dialogical dimension of thinking, which, in turn, refers us to the communitarian and historical contexts from which solitude, as well as solidarity, competition, alliances, and friendships in thought, emerge.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
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Available in Other Form
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
One. That We Are a Conversation
Two. On the Unity of Thematic Philosophy and the History of Thought
Three. The Relevance of Intersubjectivity for First Philosophy and the History of Philosophy
Four. Education: Responsive Tradition
Five. Philosophy: Wise about Friendship?
Six Vocative
Seven. Philosophy versus Faith?
Eight. The Universality of a Christian Philosophy
Nine. Sacrificium Laudis-Sacrificium Intellectus
Ten. Philosophy as Mediation between Faith and Culture
Notes
Index
