Of men and manners: essays historical and philosophical

This is a collection of elegant and learned writings by the late Lord Quinton, one of the most prominent men of letters of the late twentieth century. The first part ranges over the last 400 years of intellectual history; in the second he discusses freedom, morality, politics, language, culture, and the relation between humans and animals. 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 ofthe volume is, broadly speaking, value in human society: Quinton discusses freedom, morality, politics, language, culture, andthe relation between humans and animals. Together these writings demonstratethe enormous breadth of their author's learning, and the clarity, elegance, and urbanity of his style. Seven of the pieces are previously unpublished. INDICE: OF MEN Francis Bacon: How was he Possible? Spinoza Dr John Radcliffe La Mettrie Coleridge at Home The Trouble with Kant Hegel Made Visible Richard Monckton Milnes T.H. Green John Dewey's theory of knowledge T.E.Hulme Bergson, Whitehead, and process philosophy Quine on doing without Meaning Ayer's Place in the History of Philosophy The Rise, Fall and Rise of Epistemology OF MANNERS The Varieties of Value The Human Animal The Past and Future of Freedom ACultural Crisis: the Devaluation of Values A Revaluation of Values: Keeping Politics in its Place Morals and Politics Words about Words

• ISBN: 978-0-19-969455-6
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 17/11/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés