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Way to wisdom: an introduction to philosophy

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The author begins this 1951 book, "What philosophy is and how much it is worth are matters of controversy... And indeed, what goes by the name of philosophy provides examples to warrant all these conflicting judgments. For the scientific-minded, the worst aspect of philosophy is that it produces no universally valid results; it provides nothing that we can know and thus possess... Nor is philosophical thought, like the sciences, characterized by progressive development... It lies in the very nature of philosophy... that in any of its forms it must dispense with the unanimous recognition of all. The certainty to which it aspires is not of the objective, scientific sort... it is an inner certainty in which a man's whole being participates... essentially philosophy springs from a different source. It emerges before any science, wherever men achieve awareness." (Pg. 7-8)..

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Z. HANDIMAN

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100 JAS w

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press., 1954

Collation

208p.; 21 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-300-00134-7

Classification

100

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Subject(s)

PHILOSOPHY

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F

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