Of Men and Manners

Essays Historical and Philosophical
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-969455-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

This is a collection of writings by the late Lord Quinton, one of the wittiest and most versatile philosophers of his generation. The first part ranges over the last four hundred years of intellectual history, discussing such thinkers as Francis Bacon, Spinoza, Coleridge, Kant, Hegel, T. H. Green, Dewey, Quine, and Ayer. The subject of the second part of the volume is, broadly speaking, value in human society: Quinton discusses freedom, morality, politics, language, culture, and the relation between humans and animals. Together these writings demonstrate the enormous breadth of their author's learning, and the clarity, elegance, and urbanity of his style. Seven of the pieces are previously unpublished.

Zielgruppe

Philosophers, intellectual historians, social and political theorists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Quinton, Anthony

Kenny, Anthony

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- OF MEN

- 1: Francis Bacon: How was he Possible?

- 2: Spinoza

- 3: Dr John Radcliffe

- 4: La Mettrie

- 5: Coleridge at Home

- 6: The Trouble with Kant

- 7: Hegel Made Visible

- 8: Richard Monckton Milnes

- 9: T.H. Green

- 10: John Dewey's theory of knowledge

- 11: T.E.Hulme

- 12: Bergson, Whitehead, and process philosophy

- 13: Quine on doing without Meaning

- 14: Ayer's Place in the History of Philosophy

- 15: The Rise, Fall and Rise of Epistemology

- OF MANNERS

- 16: The Varieties of Value

- 17: The Human Animal

- 18: The Past and Future of Freedom

- 19: A Cultural Crisis: the Devaluation of Values

- 20: A Revaluation of Values: Keeping Politics in its Place

- 21: Morals and Politics

- 22: Words about Words

Über Autor(innen)

Quinton, Anthony
Anthony Quinton (1925-2010) was a fellow of All Souls and New College, Oxford. From 1978 to 1987 he was President of Trinity College, Oxford, and President of the Aristotelian Society from 1975 to 1976. He is the author of numerous books, including The Nature of Things (1973), Utilitarian Ethics (1973), From Wodehouse To Wittgenstein (1998), Francis Bacon (Oxford, 1980), and Thoughts and Thinkers (1982). He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1977, and made a life peer in 1983.