Metaphysics in Ordinary Language

Stanley Rosen

Published by Yale University Press 2008

Metaphysics in Ordinary Language

Stanley Rosen

https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300150469

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In this rich collection of philosophical writings, Stanley Rosen addresses a wide range of topicsfrom eros, poetry, and freedom to problems like negation and the epistemological status of sense perception. Though diverse in subject, Rosen’s essays share two unifying principles: there can be no legitimate separation of textual hermeneutics from philosophical analysis, and philosophical investigation must be oriented in terms of everyday language and experience, although it cannot simply remain within these confines. Ordinary experience provides a minimal criterion for the assessment of extraordinary discourses, Rosen argues, and without such a criterion we would have no basis for evaluating conflicting discourses: philosophy would give way to poetry.

Philosophical problems are not so deeply embedded in a specific historical context that they cannot be restated in terms as valid for us today as they were for those who formulated them, the author maintains. Rosen shows that the history of philosophya story of conflicting interpretations of human life and the structure of intelligibilityis a story that comes to life only when it is rethought in terms of the philosophical problems of our own personal and historical situation.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Chapter 1. Suspicion, Deception, and Concealment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2. The Lived Present Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter 3. Erotic Ascent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Chapter 4. The Golden Apple Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
Chapter 5. The Problem of Sense Perception in Plato's Philebus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Chapter 6. Forms, Elements, and Categories Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
Chapter 7. Technē and the Origins of Modernity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
Chapter 8. Sad Reason Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
Chapter 9. Transcendental Indeterminateness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
Chapter 10. Freedom and Reason Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
Chapter 11. Interpretation and the Fusion of Horizons: Remarks on Gadamer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
Chapter 12. Is There a Sign of Freedom? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
Chapter 13. Philosophy and Ordinary Experience Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
Chapter 14. Nothing and Dialectic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
Chapter 15. Kojève’s Paris: A Memoir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289

Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages
- Main content: 304

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Published: October 1, 2008
ISBN: 9780300150469