The Nature of Philosophical Problems
Their Causes and Implications
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 May 2014
- ISBN 9780198712756
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 240x162x21 mm
- Weight 532 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
John Kekes proposes a new way of understanding the nature of philosophical problems, and defends a pluralist approach towards coping with them. He argues that the recurrence of such problems is not a defect, but a consequence of the richness of our modes of understanding that enlarges the range of possibilities by which we might choose to live.
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We must all make choices about how we want to live. We evaluate our possibilities by relying on historical, moral, personal, political, religious, and scientific modes of evaluations, but the values and reasons that follow from them conflict. Philosophical problems are forced on us when we try to cope with such conflicts. There are reasons for and against all proposed ways of coping with the conflicts, but none of them has been generally accepted by reasonable thinkers. The constructive aim of The Nature of Philosophical Problems is to propose a way of understanding the nature of such philosophical problems, explain why they occur, why they are perennial, and propose a pluralist approach as the most reasonable way of coping with them. This approach is practical, context-dependent, and particular. It follows from it that the recurrence of philosophical problems is not a defect, but a welcome consequence of the richness of our modes of understanding that enlarges the range of possibilities by which we might choose to live. The critical aim of the book is to give reasons against both the absolutist attempt to find an overriding value or principle for resolving philosophical problems and of the relativist claim that reasons unavoidably come to an end and how we want to live is ultimately a matter of personal preference, not of reasons.
John Kekes The Nature of Philosophical Problems: Their Causes and Implications is an intelligent, mostly clear, and well-written treatment of an often neglected important meta-philosophical question.
Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE: FROM MODES OF UNDERSTANDING TO PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS
MODES OF UNDERSTANDING: A GENERAL ACCOUNT
MODES OF UNDERSTANDING: PARTICULAR ACCOUNTS
CONFLICTS AND PROBLEMS
THE PROBLEMS AND THEIR CONTEXTS
PART TWO: PROBLEMATIC PROPOSALS
HISTORY AND GENEALOGY
MORALITY AND MORALISM
POLITICS AND IDEOLOGY
SCIENCE AND SCIENTISM
PART THREE: TOWARD A PLURALIST APPROACH
GOOD REASONS
THE PLURALIST APPROACH TO GOOD LIVES, PROVIDENTIAL ORDER, AND THE IDEAL STATE
THE PLURALIST APPROACH TO CONTROL, REASONABLE HOPE, AND MORAL ABSOLUTES
NOTES
WORKS CITED
INDEX
