Buch, Englisch, 540 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1160 g
Reihe: Routledge Revivals
Buch, Englisch, 540 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1160 g
Reihe: Routledge Revivals
ISBN: 978-1-041-38686-5
Verlag: Routledge
First published in 1940, The Real and the Negative attempts to resolve the outstanding conflicts of human experience. Beginning with the common suggestion that the categories of thought and practice have reached an impasse, it addresses the sceptical claim with a fresh theory of doubt. It then constructs a framework to resolve the age-old conflicts between the categories, based on a fresh interpretation of the law of contradiction. The interpretation is unconventional, and The Real and the Negative emerged in a form that bears no resemblance to any tradition.
As a piece of pure logic, with none of the features of esoteric intuition, poetic vision, or scientific hypothesis, it does not hesitate to draw conclusions. Therefore, on the notions of Divinity and value, it departs from traditional thought. According to its main thesis, human society may be freed through persuasion from the necessity of warfare and suppression, and civilization—which humanity has long aspired to—may be built on its foundation.
From its inception in the critical atmosphere of Oxford, the book took the author nearly two decades to complete.
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Preface Part 1 1. The true sceptic 2. The cartesian technique 3. The theory of doubt 4. The residuum of universal doubt 5. Fresh method for further discovery 6. Laws of thought, fresh interpretation 7. Notions of possibility and existence 8. Freedom and the structure of the universe 9. Issue of identity and difference 10. Categories of being and becoming 11. The continuous and the discontinuous 12. Relationship between the possibilities of being and nothing 13. Restatement of our main position 14. Theories of similarity, particularity and universality 15. Theory of knowledge: Part I, theory of mind and matter 16. Theory of knowledge: Part II, analysis of the scientific claim 17. Theory of: Part III, theory of subject and object 18. Theory of knowledge: Part IV, immediate and mediate knowledge, etc. 19. Theory of knowledge: Part V, theory of time Part 2 1. Analysis of religious experience 2. Analysis of warfare 3. Nature of religious efforts 4. Re-interpretation of the religious issue 5. The strictly religious problem 6. Theory of Divinity 7. Totemism and Animism 8. Polytheism and monotheism 9. Equality and inequality 10. Claims of history 11. The ethical standpoint 12. Maya and Nirvana 13. Worship and image
