Concepts and Categories

Philosophical Essays

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19901547
AutoresAlasdair C Macintyre, Isaiahhg Berlin (autor de correspondencia), Bernard Williams, Henry Hardy (0000-0002-5466-2355), Isaiah Berlin
Año2014
Páginas384
Fecha de publicación2014-12-31
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaConcepts and Categories (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialPrinceton University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9781400848102
OpenAlexW1494781880
Open LibraryOL29176619M
ISBN9781400848102
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas23

"The goal of philosophy is always the same, to assist men to understand themselves and thus to operate in the open, not wildly in the dark."--Isaiah Berlin This volume of Isaiah Berlin's essays presents the sweep of his contributions to philosophy from his early participation in the debates surrounding logical positivism to his later work, which more evidently reflects his life-long interest in political theory, the history of ideas, and the philosophy of history. Here Berlin describes his view of the nature of philosophy, and of its main task: to uncover the various models and presuppositions--the concepts and categories--that men bring to their existence and that help form that existence. Throughout, his writing is informed by his intense consciousness of the plurality of values, the nature of historical understanding, and of the fragility of human freedom in the face of rigid dogma. This new edition adds a number of previously uncollected pieces that throw further light on Berlin's central philosophical concerns, and a revealing exchange of letters with the editor and Bernard Williams about the genesis of the book

Consciousness · Epistemology · Face (sociological concept) · Logical positivism · Politics · Positivism · Presupposition · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · 20th century · Addresses, essays, lectures · British · Logic · modern