Author: Lodi Nauta
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674032699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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One of the leading humanists of Quattrocento Italy, Lorenzo Valla (ca. 1406-1457) has been praised as a brilliant debunker of medieval scholastic philosophy. In this book Lodi Nauta seeks a more balanced assessment, presenting us with the first comprehensive analysis of the humanist's attempt at radical reform of Aristotelian scholasticism. This study examines Valla's attack on major tenets of Aristotelian metaphysics, showing how Valla employed common sense and linguistic usage as his guides. It then explicates Valla's critique of Aristotelian psychology and natural philosophy and discusses his moral and religious views, including Valla's notorious identification of Christian beatitude with Epicurean pleasure and his daring views on the Trinity. Finally, it takes up Valla's humanist dialectic, which seeks to transform logic into a practical tool measured by persuasiveness and effectiveness. Nauta firmly places Valla's arguments and ideas within the contexts of ancient and medieval philosophical traditions as well as renewed interest in ancient rhetoric in the Renaissance. He also demonstrates the relevance of Valla's conviction that the philosophical problems of the scholastics are rooted in a misunderstanding of language. Combining philosophical exegesis and historical scholarship, this book offers a new approach to a major Renaissance thinker.
Author: Noah Lemos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521837842
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Noah Lemos defends the common sense tradition--the view that permits us to justify the philosophical inquiry of many of the things we ordinarily think we know. He discusses the main features of this tradition as expounded by Thomas Reid, G.E. Moore and Roderick Chisholm in a text that will appeal to students and philosophers in epistemology and ethics.
Author: A. Coliva
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023028969X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Does scepticism threaten our common sense picture of the world? Does it really undermine our deep-rooted certainties? Answers to these questions are offered through a comparative study of the epistemological work of two key figures in the history of analytic philosophy, G. E. Moore and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Author: Lyndon H. LaRouche
Publisher: Schiller Inst
ISBN: 9780962109539
Category : Common sense.
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Author: Rik Peels
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108476007
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 389
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A comprehensive exploration of the historical development and philosophical importance of common-sense philosophy.
Author: David Garcia
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781578260904
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 87
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Presents a basic program of self-defense to help teach effective physical, psychological, and verbal and non-verbal techniques to avoid and survive dangerous situations.
Author: Jennifer Luff
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807869899
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Between the Great War and Pearl Harbor, conservative labor leaders declared themselves America's "first line of defense" against Communism. In this surprising account, Jennifer Luff shows how the American Federation of Labor fanned popular anticommunism but defended Communists' civil liberties in the aftermath of the 1919 Red Scare. The AFL's "commonsense anticommunism," she argues, steered a middle course between the American Legion and the ACLU, helping to check campaigns for federal sedition laws. But in the 1930s, frustration with the New Deal order led labor conservatives to redbait the Roosevelt administration and liberal unionists and abandon their reluctant civil libertarianism for red scare politics. That frustration contributed to the legal architecture of federal anticommunism that culminated with the McCarthyist fervor of the 1950s. Relying on untapped archival sources, Luff reveals how labor conservatives and the emerging civil liberties movement debated the proper role of the state in policing radicals and grappled with the challenges to the existing political order posed by Communist organizers. Surprising conclusions about familiar figures, like J. Edgar Hoover, and unfamiliar episodes, like a German plot to disrupt American munitions manufacture, make Luff's story a fresh retelling of the interwar years.
Author: Thomas Paine
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Author: Charles Bradford Bow
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198783906
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 237
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Common sense philosophy was one of the Scottish Enlightenment's most original intellectual products. The nine specially written essays in this volume explore the philosophical and historical significance of this school of thought, recovering the ways in which it developed during the long eighteenth century.
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Publisher: Ford Oxaal
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 62
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