The Intuitive Basis of Knowledge (Classic Reprint): An Epistemological Inquiry - Couverture souple

N. O. Lossky

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133086414X ISBN 13 : 9781330864142

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how knowledge really arises from our immediate experience and intuitive judgments.

This edition surveys competing theories of knowledge—from naive realism to empiricist and rationalist traditions—through the lens of the intuitional theory. It explains how thinking can be both disciplined and creatively responsive, balancing data given in experience with the mind’s active role. This book traces the evolution of epistemology in the nineteenth century, weighing claims about how we know the world, the role of perception, and the limits of objective certainty. It examines key thinkers and ideas, showing how a careful, skeptical approach can lead to a more modest yet resilient understanding of knowledge.

• Understand the difference between experiential content and the mind’s constructive activity in knowing.
• See how intuition, analysis, and criticism shape theories of truth and judgment.
• Compare empiricist, rationalist, and empirio-critical positions, including the work of Avenarius and Spencer.
• Learn how a carefully framed metaphysical view can stay empirical while remaining modest about certainty.

Ideal for readers of philosophy, epistemology, and the history of ideas who want a clear, non-technical overview of how knowledge is formed and tested.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from The Intuitive Basis of Knowledge: An Epistemological Inquiry

I yield to the request of my friend Mrs. Duddington that I should write such words of introduction as are needful to the English version of Professor Lossky's work. Yet, in relieving her of that task, I am depriving the reader of what would have been to him far more useful. For she has an intimate acquaintance with the modes of philosophical reflexion that have become prevalent in her native land and could have delineated the intellectual environment in the midst of which her former teachers thought has taken shape and reached its present outlook. I am, however, thus afforded the opportunity of congratulating Mrs. Duddington upon the completion of an arduous and difficult undertaking. This is the first Russian philosophical book that has been translated into English. The translator had, there fore, no precedent to follow in the attempt to give a rendering of the original, which should be as faithful to the sense and as close to the authors mode of expression as was consistent with lucidity and intelligibility. Moreover, Russian philosophical writers of the present day are labouring under a disadvantage similar to that under which the philosophical writers of Germany laboured in Kant's time, - the disadvantage, namely, of having to a large extent to coin their technical terms as they go along.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133086414X
• ISBN 13: 9781330864142
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 454
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