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

How we know what we know, and why it matters to every learner. This work examines how knowledge begins with the knowing subject and the immediate experience of the world, and how theories move between empirical description and deeper metaphysical claims.

It compares intuitional theories with passive empiricism and rationalist aims, explaining why a cautious, modest view of knowledge can still aim for the whole truth as understanding deepens. Through discussions of Spencer, Avenarius, Kant, and others, it surveys how thinkers have tried to balance experience, judgment, and the structure of reality in a coherent epistemology.

• Learn how thinking and experience shape our concept of the world and knowledge itself.


• Understand the debate between naive realism, empirical critique, and rationalist influence.


• See how key philosophers frame judgment, perception, and the meaning of objects.


• Explore how the epistemology of the nineteenth century informs later discussions of mind and reality.

Ideal for readers seeking a careful, historical view of how knowledge is formed and tested across major philosophical traditions.

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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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