Friendship As Sacred Knowing: Overcoming Isolation - Couverture rigide

Kimbriel, Samuel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199363986 ISBN 13 : 9780199363988

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2014

Synopsis

We are haunted, Samuel Kimbriel suggests, by a habit of isolation buried, often imperceptibly, within our practices of understanding and relating to the world. In this volume he works through the complexities of this disposition to contest its place within contemporary philosophical thought and practice. He focuses on the human activity of friendship. Chapters one and two examine friendship to unearth the contours of this habit towards isolation and to reveal certain ills that have long attended it. Chapters three through seven place these isolated ways of relating to the world into critical dialogue with the tradition of late-antique and early-medieval Johannine Christianity, in which intimacy and understanding go hand in hand. This tradition drew the human activities of friendship and enquiry into such unity that understanding itself became a kind of communion. Kimbriel endorses a return to an antique and particularly Christian philosophical habit--"the befriending of wisdom."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Samuel Kimbriel is a teaching fellow in philosophical theology at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses on questions of metaphysical realism, with a particular interest in perception and intellection. He holds an MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199363986
• ISBN 13: 9780199363988
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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