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THE BEAUTIFUL, THE TRUE AND THE GOOD
STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF THOUGHT |
| By: |
Robert E. Wood |
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Hardback |
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£65.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
081322747X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780813227474 |
| Publisher: |
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
5 June, 2015 |
| Series: |
Studies in Philosophy & the History of Philosophy |
| Pages: |
504 |
| Description: |
How do we understand the notions of the beautiful, the true, and the good, and how do they help us to know, to understand? Philosopher Robert E. Wood considers appeals respectively to the heart, to the intellect, and to the will. In our minds, their interplay beckons each of us to assimilate one's past, and look forward towards further endeavours. |
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How do we understand the notions of the beautiful, the true, and the good, and how do they help us to know, to understand? Philosopher Robert E. Wood considers appeal respectively to the heart, to the intellect, and to the will. In our minds, their interplay beckons each of us to assimilate one's past, and look forward towards further endeavours. They also set up what Wood calls a "dialogical imperative" to speak from where we stand and to stand in place of the Other, the person facing us, as well. The order follows Plato's claim that the love of Beauty is the light of the Good that grounds our pursuit of the True. Human experience, according to Wood, has a "magnetically bipolar" character, rooted in organically based desires. Yet that experience is aimed, through the all-encompassing notion of Being, at the absolute totality of what is. The notion of Being affords a distance that grounds both understanding and choice. Culture enters in as well. Its developments, initially empty in relation to the totality, come to occupy the space of meaning between the here-and-now and the totality. Each human being's genetic endowments interplay with one's cultural shaping.Taking them up, each individual sets up a unique field of attractions and repulsions belonging to the heart as one's radically individual center. Wood proceeds from this phenomenological basis to consider key thinkers from Heraclitus and Parmenides, to Heidegger, Buber, and Marcel. He seeks, in this collection of essays from the past forty years, to develop a "fusion of horizons" with them, as part of an on-going broader philosophical dialogue that constitutes the history of thought, now and to come. |
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US |
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The Catholic University of America Press |
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Returnable |
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